Well it could be said that this is more of the same from Mike Resnick. But with a style so easy to read and a story and setting so involving this can only be a good thing.

The Iceman is now a man in his seventies but he still tries to track down Penelope Bailey. Together with a supporting cast of wonderfully larger than life characters such as the Gravedancer (a Bounty Hunter), the Silicon Kid (a cybernetically enhanced kid out to make a reputation), The Anointed One (an Evengelical Preacher with dreams of power and conquest) this book tells the final installment in Iceman/Bailey's story.

Being another of Mike Resnick's Birthright Universe novels this will feel comfortable to many Resnick readers and should satisfy any one who likes the 'Boy's Own' adventure style of SF. You won't find detailed science in this, spaceships and blaster just work, we don't care how. Journeys happen, we don't need to read of the actual movement involved.

I find Mr. Resnick's books are exactly what I need to refresh my reading brain cells when they start to feel frazzled. He always hooks me within the first few lines and writes a tale that will drag me through to the end of the book and always, always leaves me wanting more. It's such a struggle not to instantly pick up another of his books as my next book.