cover image Weapon

Weapon

Robert C. Mason. Jove Books, $4.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-55773-309-2

The star of this ingenious debut novel is Solo, a highly sophisticated robot. Endowed with an intellect and feel ings, Solo experiences conflicts about his role as a killer and, eluding his Pen tagon masters, aborts his helicopter mission and crash lands in a Nicara guan village. ``Readers will eagerly await Mason's promised sequel to this rousing anti-techno-thriller techno- thriller,'' concluded PW. (Feb.)