What can I say other than the book is worth the hype? I wasn't sure at the start; I listened to the audiobook version - which was excellently done - and Gabriel Betteredge's opening narrative is... trying. I loved his character the best and the narrator who played his part played it to the hilt...
My beloved father, who introduced me to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and A Canticle for Leibowitz, gave this book to me. Unfortunately, I did not finish it. In fact, I got 50 pages in and realized this book was what happens when Top Gun and the Hammacher-Schlemmer catalogue have a baby togethe...
Although tighter, shorter, and a bit lighter on the technological details, Dale Brown & Jim DeFelice's novels have always struck me as almost a TV version of a Tom Clancy blockbuster (a la Op Center). The stakes are very much the same, but the scope and the range are very different, with the few Dre...
The Edge of Battle focus on the border war along the Mexican border. Commander Veracruz, a drug dealer and smuggler, is calling upon Mexican nationalism to take back the southeastern part of the United States back to Mexico. As part of this, Veracruz's forces slaughter a group of US border guards. T...
Awful awful book!
Plot Summary: The deadliest weapon . . . is man Top NATO representatives meet in Kiev to forge a new alliance . . . Powerful elements within a newly resurgent Russia decide the alliance must be stopped at all costs . . . The warriors of Dreamland have moved on. Some, like Breanna and Zen Stockard, t...