They lead Buchanan’s division of the Night Soldiers, the competing private armies of high-tech super-soldiers. Tuscarora fares better in setting up the rivalry between Quincy Daniels, a cynical everyman who’s starting to question his beliefs, and Dean Williams, an older-but-not-wiser comrade. Buchanan, the “Capitalist,” whose rape and murder of children is passed off as some kind of abhorrent eccentricity reserved for the rich.
The protagonists, ostensibly meant to inspire suspicion and fear, are mostly just repellent–for example, James J. There are plenty of overarching conspiracies and tactical movements by economic bosses across the world–in Russia, China, Africa and Mexico–but the myriad plots never coalesce into a coherent narrative. The novel is set in the near future, after the world has endured five “Money Wars,” which, though never fully explained, were far-reaching military conflicts between a series of absurdly wealthy corporate industrialists. Between these extremes, the story is a mostly confusing blend of Tom Clancy-esque military intrigue, hard science fiction and an odd presentation of modern economics. Warring capitalists prove the system doesn’t work–by unwittingly destroying it.Ī mash-up of Blade Runner, Freakonomics and television claptrap, Night Soldiers begins with a pseudo-intellectual hypothesis about how money makes the world go round, and ends in apocalyptic fire.
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