alexanderp's review
medium-paced
4.0
This felt like a gear change to some degree. The idea that "Mary" was different felt a bit shoehorned in or maybe I was just missing the clues in previous issues.
nigellicus's review
5.0
After the Kapital is bombed in dock (remind you of anything? - foreword of the book is by a Greenpeace activist) Callum and Mag head across the ruins of Eastern Europe to track down an old Blackbell comrade who has been tracking them with an eye to subverting Ninth Wave to his own ends. Along the way, Callum is presented with some disturbing information about the missing Mary, which confirms what has been hinted all along -there is something definitely not normal about her. Meanwhile Mary is in the Sahara, taking part in a massive convoy of water from Saudi Arabia to Morocco, hoping to help the women hired to guard the trucks get there and back safely. Utterly fantastic. Nothing else like it out there, tapping into ecology, ethical philosophy, economics and geopolitics in an epic, grounded narrative, and I really wish there was.
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