The Cattle Greg M. Sarwa Ampol Publishing Inc ISBN: 0-9766202-0-0 Fiction, Science Fiction Reviewed by Eugen Bacon

The book layout of Greg. M. Sarwa’s novel is easy to the eye, the opening paragraph rather well written: sunlight and gloom dancing on silver fuselages. I could not help but be at once drawn. Brian Warburton is a man at home with information systems than with fellow human beings. His work is cut out but he is an integral part of a society in the heart of harsh immigration screening, utter chaos that catapults him into something sinister. A new policy of enhanced futuristic Homeland Security is at the lip of implementation, a National Identification law well refined to high level security. Intelligent microchip implants on every citizen will soon supervise, manage and execute some if not every facet of human existence - to extremes. Federal Agents know something local coppers do not. Crucial information must be withheld… At all costs. A full novel packed in hours.

With almost everyone in security breach in heightened zone for extermination, there is not a single protagonist to fully identify with, or feel sympathy for. A full-house cast makes characterization skimp. But an almost predictable plot has a rather astonishing ending. The Cattle is stark, political in a sense. Entertaining. An intriguing read for futuristic die-hards embroiled in what-if scenarios.

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