This is another book of Mike Resnick's dealing with bounty hunters. This is fine if like me you like his rather adventurous blend of SF.

The story here concerns the adventure of the clone of the galaxy's most reknowned bounty hunter, Jefferson Nighthawk - created at the age of 23, with all the attributes of the original but without the experience - cloned to track down and kill a notorious assassin.

This kind of SF is never going to be an awe-inspriring read, but what this book is is a romp. The pages fly past as Resnick's writing drags you headlong through an incredibly fast paced plot. It has the usual Mike Resnick split between characters and science, i.e. mainly the science. There is none of the forced explanations of space travel or futuristic weapons here, the characters just use them, the space travel just is. But that is a strength here. Pages of detail into the star-drive (or whatever) would only prevent the story from occuring.