User blog comment:The Milkman/What Happened to Harbinger?/@comment-899316-20120425001304

On the point of Kai Leng, only the latest book was terrible. The first three, written by Drew Karpyshyn himself, were great, and Kai Leng showed up in the last book first. Deception, however, was an abomination. The ending, also not touched by Karpyshyn, was also horrid.

My point? Drew Karpyshyn was essential to the series, and without him things have fallen into chaos.

(And, on the point of space ninjas, I'd normally agree, but Kai Leng is an expert in CQC. That plus Reaper tech upgrades make him one of the few people who could legitimately pull off the space ninja thing. Gameplay, unfortunately, did not convey this point well.)