Three stars because it was a fun read. Add a star because it was enough fun that I read the sequels - and if there's another sequel I'll read it too. Take back a star because almost every Daems book is the same story - as this series is almost one story told five times.
Anna is a brilliant analyst. She realizes that the isolated incidents she is studying are part of a broader conspiracy. (In story terms, her team-mates are basically along for the ride.) She follows the evidence - which alarms the bad guys and provokes repeated efforts to assassinate her. She is young and female - which repeatedly results in hostility which she must overcome. At the end of the book (and each subsequent book) she gets promoted so that she is even younger for her rank, evoking yet more hostility.
The hostility doesn't have to make sense, nor does the premise that people will keep committing career suicide to attack her. The science-fictional aspects don't have to make sense. (A world with five million people, over half a millennium from now, is virtually indistinguishable form 21st-century Earth. The computers may not be as good.) If you enjoy this book, Daems has written numerous others - some in science-fictional settings, some in fantasy settings, some in present-day-Earth settings. Most of the ones I looked at (or, yes, read) are very similar to this book.
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