Daniel Shellenbarger’s Reviews > Only in Death > Status Update

there's a part of the old Gary Cooper movie Beau Geste in which the heroes are all stuck in a desert fortress surrounded by unseen Tuaregs, outnumbered and getting picked off one by one, this is that but set in a probably-haunted bunker on an alien world.

I love the setting of this book, so vaguely unsettling and remorselessly hostile, kind of like a mix of Beau Geste and a Gothic horror novel.