) called Steve needs money to buy his uncles vintage car dealership so he goes to this guy (i forgot his name) who runs Death Force and he is set with the task of recruting nine other mercenaries who are masters of their trade and arnt afraid to die etc. Thy're set to Afganistan to rob a drug lord's fortress and will each receive $3million from the total amount they steal. However things dont go to plan as one guy is shot, another captured by the Taliban and they have to run for the Pakistani border.
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This should probably - and most likely will be - moved to the Literature section of the forums since it deals with... literature.
Anyhuma, the last book I read worth mentioning. I would suggest the Way of the Kings by Brandon Sanderson. It is the first book of projected ten in his Stormlight Archvie epic. It is a Shardworld book; for those who don't know what that is: the Shardworld novels all take place within the same universe called the Cosmere. Most of Sanderson's original work: Elantris, Warbreaker, Stormlight Archive, & Mistborn are all Shardworld tales. They are not integrally tied together but there are common factors in each book, like a character by the name of Hoid and how some of the magic is similar.
The Way of Kings has one main character, Kaladin, and quite a few supporting characters that take the "screen time". There is a war going on between two groups that has been going on for 5-6 years now. An atheist scholar is researching about the past trying to find the truth. The lore of this world is quite interesting and the magic is good too. I won't go too much into detail since I don't want to spoil anything for potential readers. I will say that once again, Brandon Sanderson has left me wanting the next book in the series to come out. Just as he did with the first two books he wrote in the Wheel of Time.
The other good book I read recently was The Unincorporated Man. It is a book that takes place 300-400 years in the future after the Grand Collapse where humanity fell because of the VR plague (Virtual Reality). Anyways the government is really limited as the Libertarians took over, and their disdain for government shows in the book. A good capture by the authors. The government is not alone in policing or the court system during this time as private business can do so as well. Judges are graded for fairness which caused the public judges to actually be better at their jobs. Humanity has spread to outer limits of the Oort Cloud but the government is headed in Geneva. The most interesting thing about this future society is that when any person is born they are incorporated. At birth they get 100,000 shares. 5,000 shares automatically go to the government which can neither increase or decrease the amount they get and 20,000 shares to the parents. To pay for stuff that they don't have the money for they give up some shares. When they lose 51% majority they effectively lose control of their life. So while this world has a pretty capitalistic economy this gives it a twist of socialism. Though instead of working for society, people work for their shareholders. So it is like a twisted form of capitalism - Share-holder socialistic - capitalism. It is possible to buy back majority so all is not lost. Plus with the advancements in technology/healthcare they have defeated aging and most death if they can get to the body quick enough to revive or if they body hasn't been too badly damaged.
The story is that a man before the Grand Collapse is found frozen. He is not incorporated, hence the title, and it is about his life waking up in this new society and trying to protect his freedom from incorporation which he sees as slavery. A very good book as I could not put it down. I had to finish it even though I knew I had work early in the morning and would only get 4 hours of sleep.
Originally Posted by Zargabaath
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