Book of the Week: Children of the Company, by Kage Baker
Thank God for a week off at Christmas, because the advent of a new Dr. Zeus novel inevitably leads to re-reading the entire series. And not in the huffy way it's necessary to re-read as many Robert Jordan novels you think might remind you of what the hell everyone was up to a geological era ago when the last one was published, either.

No, with Baker it's a positive treat to return to previous novels, because her plotting is razor-sharp and her continuity borders on the scandalous. Which is saying a lot, considering that she's telling the stories of immortal cyborgs who work for the shady yet ever so profitable company Dr. Zeus, saving treasures like extinct species and lost artworks throughout history. Things are moving inexorably towards the year 2355, when suddenly no further information is available to the operatives in the past, and even without her zippy writing style and black sense of humour I would be all agog to find out what's going to happen next.