This is a future Apocalyptic world, where some rust-styled gunk has put paid to anything built of metal, and our civilisation is back in the dark ages. Most of mankind, without iron and all the good metals in our blood, have turned into muties, as if fresh from Judge Dredd's Cursed Earth. Some of us have also developed weird superpowers – but The Transporter's power seems to be fetching and carrying while immune from any danger. His latest mission might be a test, though – bringing back the manfolk kidnapped from a sizeable village. And that's made harder with the attentions of the token Dodgy Culty Church Run by Fat Blokes. And you know what's harder still? Actually following this book. Similar-looking females, too many sides, too much back-story, too much cutting away to someone narrating about it elsewhere and elsewhen – it all gets more than a bit much. I'll not go into how original having a load of Aliens rejects and a flame-thrower are, either – I wouldn't want to put you right off. But this isn't exactly packed with novelty, and seems to use every trick to try and hide that, in vain. Two and a half stars.