cool story

i like how you wrote max is dif. so yeh

lov rosie

Hmmm. Overall, I like this (sorry it's taken me so long to get around to reviewing it). You really have a good head for tactics and strategy-Max's plan to set Lydecker up is complex and believable, and I like that he has a tough time distinguishing her pattern even though she wants him to find it; it proves she's smarter, which of course she is. And while I very, very nearly buy that Lydecker would really stay out of Seattle, something about it just doesn't quite ring true for me. I'm trying to figure out what it is. Maybe it's that Max's threat to cripple or otherwise dismember him is what seems to confirm his decision. Of course, that kind of thing would be enough to give anyone pause, and of course he knows and we know that Max could do it. But Lydecker is a man obsessed, and I don't think the threat of bodily harm would really dissuade him. I guess I'm just looking for different reasons behind his reason-it's tactically unsound, if he were out of commission there'd be no one so uniquely suited to the vital task of recovering the X-5s... That sort of thing. You make a good point in that he's always going to be wondering if his information is a plant, and I like that he's still plotting his revenge even after he capitulates, but that little bit where he promises to stay out of Seattle still bothers me, and as near as I can figure, it's because you don't give an overt military reason for it. Maybe it's implied, and I just didn't get a strong enough sense of it. I don't know. Also, and this is a minor thing, I think you have a nice opportunity here to highlight again how far over the edge Max has gone-even Lydecker would probably notice that she wasn't quite this insane the last time he ran into her. Anyway, it's very well-written as always, and I enjoyed it-it's only because your fics are so good that I'm so picky about them. :)

Great story. I really liked how you made Max.

once again very good

Nice work there, I think it worked out well, and fits the way you have characterized Max in your other fics.

I liked it, actually, and no, I haven't read your other fics - this is the first one of yours - I think - that I've read. It's good, though! Nifty Max persona, but she's just got to remember to NOT step foot outside the city - that'll be tough, what with her Eyes Only stuff - unless she doesn't work with Eyes Only in your stories...? I should read up on it - which I shall. *g* Congrats, and more!

I'm all smiles! Good story :)

Hey this was great. It was a nice story to explain the time that had passed. Are you going to follow Code of Honor with a story of Deck's revenge? Of course we don't know what's going to happen in Code of Honor. Keep up the writing. You're definitely a great author.