A Brief Review of Black Projects, White Knights, by Kage Baker

Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers by Kage Baker

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


A strange and curious collections of tales about the activities of the field agents of the Company, or Dr. Zeus, Inc., immortal cyborgs, who are engaged in such missions as searching for the "rare hallucinogenic Black Elysium grape, checking in on the ill-health of Robert Louis Stevenson, to recovering priceless literary artifacts from a sarcophagus in 1914 Egypt. To quote the book jacket, 'Is it possible to interfere with History in a moral way, especially if profit is the primary motivation for doing so? In fact, is it possible to sustain any ethical standards at all when handed what amounts to unlimited power?"

Dark, sometimes funny and satirical (the UK "nanny state" is eviscerated), sad, intense, and a very carefully constructed alternate reality and secret history.

Clearly a title that has been on my "To Be Read"s shelf for too long.



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