If the fear that 9/11 caused is any indication as to how governments will use fear to control people to get what they want (in the case of 9/11 oil at the expense of chasing a 'bad guy' completely uninvolved with the actual incident) John Twelve Hawks 'Vast Machine' might well be on its way, if not here already. A very interesting read as a triology, although the other two books were far better than this one. This book felt really rushed and made me read it that way as well. So many events happened in a short paragraph and were over before you realized they had begun. Kind of a disappointment to the ending of this series, though the actual end of the book fit perfect and was satisfying.