Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB) started reading T2: Rising Storm by S. M. Stirling (T2, #2)
The section with the aboriginals appeared unrealistic, in how tame they were to their captors, in how Dieter and John didn't kill their captors during their firefight, and most importantly, how the tribesmen had watched their chief be paraded as he was, without interfering.