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Machiavelli Interface Pb

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This is the Third book of the Trilogy and the build-up is absolutly worth it! The action is both brutal and climactic as The Man Who Never Missed and his small band of Matadors challenge the despotically corrupt and failing Confed Empire and it's twisted and dangerous backer, the "kingmaker" Marcus Jefferson Wall, the most powerful man in Human Space. A man who will stop at nothing to see Khadajii and his Matadors dead and their dream of freedom for the peoples of the Confed utterly destroyed!!

Khadaji and the Matadors are now in direct conflict with the Galactic Confederation. Marcus Wall, the power behind the President of the Confed, is a master of plans within plans and will do whatever it takes to stay in, or at least near the center of power. But Khadaji is also a master, and his goal is to bring down the Wall, and the Confed along with him.

For once, a "book three" as inspired as its predecessors. The Machiavelli Interface (TMI) continues the story from The Man Who Never Missed (TMWNM) and Matadora. Unlike a normal series, which introduces few new themes or devices, TMI gives us plenty of both. TMI is, like all of the books in the Matador series, inspiring and an enormously fun read. If you can find a copy, buy it, whatever the cost.

The Machiavelli Interface

(1986)

This is third book in the series called Matador by Steve Perry.
Dirisha Zuri was introduced in The Man Who Never Missed as a bouncer at the Jade Flower, the bar, where she met Khadaji. She is, also, a Musashi Flex player. Now she is leading the Matadors on a rescue mission. This was suppose to be a trilogy, per the acknkowlegments, but somewhere in the writing of it the author decided to make it a series. Now 20 years later, he's still writing.

Warning: Violence, adult content (sex), and some profanity, plus one h@ll of a book..

This includes some of the back story of Factor Wall, a financier,and if that's not bad enough he's also a Pedophile. Each of the books in this series include a back story of one of the characters in The Man Who Never Missed


The rebellion proper begins in The Man Who Never Missed, in which Emile Khadaji deserts from the Confederation military after a particularly bloody battle and experiencing Relampago, a religious experience, eventually joining up with a bartending martial artist monk named Pen, who teaches Khadaji the art used by his order, Sumito ("The 97 steps"), before setting him on his own path."

You probably ought to be old enough to join the Army to read this.

Evidently , this started off to be a trilogy, but proved to be so popular it ended up a series.

Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys martial arts in a science fiction setting.


The next book in this series is The 97th Step (Ace Science Fiction)]]. See my Listmania "Steve Perry Books the Matador Series".

Gunner April, 2010

Having learned the skills of body and mind that made them the most skilled fighters in the universe-- they are the enemy.