John Surrey is a character who doesn't like self-importance and ignorance in others, yet carries it around in himself. Whether he realizes it or not, he's rather sexist and homophobic (as are many of the characters in Dann's Time Share series). Unlike the two previous novels in the series, nothing in A TIME FOR WAR makes for such good reading that you can overlook the flaws. Mr. Dann is a good storyteller, but he mistakes old-fashioned charm for old-fashioned ignorance and this title proves that the third time is not the "charm."