Seekers, The [Hardcover]

Armstrong goes on to found the Seekers, a group of bounty hunters who are professional, and respectable. His religion plays a part in the book, and is primarily seen in his attitude torwards the criminals he is trying to capture. He does not accept the fact that all of them are automatically evil, and frequently talks about how he is trying to let his mind grow, and that this is what the people he works with need to do as well. The religion is not an overwhelming part of the book, but if you are the sort of person who cannot read about a religious view that conflicts with yours without getting agitated, this is not the book for you.

The best part of the book is the stories about caputres he's made. As a bounty hunter, it is his job to track down people who were arrested, made bail, then did not return for their trial. A typical bounty hunter gets 5,000-25,000 a capture. Most of the chapters in the book describe memorable captures this bounty hunter has made either individually, or with the help of his organization. He would aquire information on his target, then track that person down and capture them in the most efficient and non-violent way possible. It is very interesting to hear about the situations he's been in, and how he survived them, and made the capture. It's a pretty easy book to read, and very engrossing.

To cut to the chase: I returned this book to the bookstore in absolute disgust!

A perfectly interesting subject is thoroughly ruined by simple-minded amateur sociology, poor writing, laughable excursions into armchair philosophy of personal evolution and true manhood, and the selling of occultism as legitimate spiritual practice.

Even though the author tirelessly parades what he must falsely diagnose to be his superior and evolved intellect, the book never rises to any level of intellectual or philosophical discourse worthy of serious consideration. Even with the help of the co-author, this book reads as though written by a high schooler.

Worst of all is the author's obvious conceitedness and the tireless promotion of "ancient Egyptian wisdom." When testing that so-called wisdom against reliable historical sources, the ancient Egyptians emerge as a cruel slaveholder nation given to practices of idolatry and occultism.

It is ironic that an African-American author (a self-described Black Phoenix--I kid you not!) of such intellectual pretensions could miss such an obvious point! What's more, what exactly did this ancient wisdom really do for ancient Egypt? It led to a country whose claim to fame are the plagues brought on by it stubborn defiance of the one true God, which led to their ultimate demise as a nation. Is this the kind of wisdom we need to hear about?

This book touches on a great number of important subjects. Unfortunately, not a single one of them is treated credibly and worthy of any serious consideration. What a thorough waste!