Del Rey, 1999, $5.99, ISBN 0-345-42717-3, 257 pages, paperback

This 50-cent purchase from a used book sale is the third book of the Psi Corps trilogy set in the B5 universe. I didn’t read the first two. It didn’t matter much. The hunt for Bester is on, and he flees from the outer rim to Paris, here on Earth.

Garibaldi, a Bill Gates-meets-Rambo sort of tycoon, is hot on his trail, along with the restructured Psi Corps. Bester is the number one war criminal left to prosecute and he leaves a trail of bodies in his wake of escape and evasion. But then he falls in love and starts to mend his ways a bit. Will he be captured? Will he marry? Will there be the pitter patter of little Bester feet? Will he write his memoirs?

That would be telling. This isn’t a bad book. I don’t know if you should go out of your way, but if B5 is your kind of universe, this can be a nice corner of it.

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