Cover of The Last CenturionThe Last Centurion is one of those "future dystopia" novels where the world had gone pretty much into the toilet and a few good men try to hold on against idiots and morons.The setup: the world was hit by a mini-ice age AND a pandemic that seriously depopulated enough of Earth. One of the few intact units left was Bandit Six, left to guard one of the arm depots in the Middle East. It fought its way to a port and finally got itself back to the US, defeating warlords and helping fledgling democracies along the way. Back at home, Bandit Six fought idiots and bureaucracy of a government gone mad with... organic farming.
The entire book was written first-person, blog-style. It takes aim at liberalism, anti-military, spin control, organic farming (how idiotic it is), big government, and so on and so forth. The author pulls no punches, zeroing in on the idiocy of various issues. The language itself can be quite offending, but always written like blog-style "F*** this."
If your sensibilities are easily offended, you should not read this book. If you want to see bad science eviscerated in a hilarious manner, much like Penn & Teller's Bull****! cable show (which does have an episode on organic farming), then please try this book.
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