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Hard times and sweet music: scandal and betrayal for Ax as England embraces the fearsome new world order.

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The riveting new instalment in Gwyneth Jones's award-winning 'Bold As Love' saga. Ax Preston, former dictator, returns to England; he's agreed to take up the job of Green President. At close quarters he finds some outrageous details in the contract, so the Triumvirate decamps for Paris, to sit out the first hard winter after the A team destroyed crude oil in ostentatious poverty. He's quite certain he can negotiate a better deal. But while Ax and Sage and Fiorinda are embarassing the English government over conditions in the new slavery labour camps, bad things are happening for the President of the USA. Fred Eiffrich's enemies in Washington are about to drop a bombshell, one that will shatter any hope of a return to former realities, former certainties. What happened at Lavoisier is not over. It's coming back, it's never going to end. At least not while Fiorinda lives...or her child.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Gyneth Gold, 27 Aug 2006 By  Gareth Wilson "drosdelnoch2" - See all my reviews       This review is from: Band Of Gypsys (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback) Fast paced action novel that's the third part of Gwyneths Bold as Love series. Great characterisation demonstrating an understanding of the human psyche as well as the continual character growth, the visual descriptiveness works extremely well and on the whole a cracking series to have on the shelves and one that will demand a reread something that very few manage to do.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   5 of 9 people found the following review helpful: New to this author but highly impressed., 4 Feb 2004 By  Paul W. (South of England) - See all my reviews This review is from: Midnight Lamp (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback) I had seen the name Gwyneth Jones crop up again and again so I decided to try one of her books. This is volume 3 in a series of which I have not read the first two (something I intend to fix!). Despite that I found it easy to get into the plot and the characters. The pace is fast and the characters are complex and real. I really cared what happened to them all and worried how Jones was going to get them all intact to the end. The book is set in Mexico and the Western United States. I found the sense of place convincing even though the author is English and speaks with an English voice. Magic, music and mayhem - what more could you want? (except love, passion, drugs and a dastardly plot to develop a super weapon of course! - all delivered) Highly recommended.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   1 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Revenge of the Hippies, 23 Oct 2006 By  Daryl Dickson "Trashman" (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews    This review is from: Band of Gypsys (Gollancz SF S.) (Paperback) I know it's supposed to be fantasy, but it's also supposed to be at least plausible. Keep the masses in check while the country falls apart with free concerts? Suddenly everybody believes in magic like a mediaeval peasants - to the point of being willing to burn a character at the stake? The silent majority are ignored while the 'drop out hordes' have to be catered for - after trashing any questionable technology in the country? And finally, the chinese seem to have become the most powerful country on the planet after sustaining the greatest losses and everybody rolls over for them? They've developed technology decades ahead of everybody and have gone post fossil fuel after being one of the worlds greatest consumers of them. Apparently they have been working on this 'since the Burma Road closed in 1942' - only nobody knew anything! Can anybosy see the USA ceding tracts of land to chinese. And doing so under threat, to allow them to invade England without going nuclear in response? Do the chinese think they can directly rule the world after invasions or threat of same and economic boycotts. No army is that large - especially one from a country that has taken large hits of it's own and is bound to have a restive population. I like the characters, they are very well drawn and believable - even the secondary ones. But I think her world would never exist - it would be stamped flat as it would seem like the minority want a free ride at the expense of the majority. Everybody's politics changes over night and things (the chinese) are introduced with virtually no warning or explanation - they just 'are'.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 5 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews A Band of Gypsys I want to join I have to take exception with "Trashman"'s review: Band of Gypsys is Gwyneth Jones at the top of her form, and the world she's created IS credible, and savage, and alarmingly... Read more Published 16 months ago by Y. Hewett It could happen here For the fourth episode of Bold As Love Ax Preston returns to England to take on the Green President job. It's a challenge. Read more Published 17 months ago by No Plastic Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 5 customer reviews...