Take a dash of Mark Watney from The Martian and throw in some Dirk Pitt action and you have a hard science, space Sci-Fi novel that keeps the action flowing and the reader engaged.
Three people that trust each other and one unknown and suspicious "Admiral" find themselves abandoned for dead on an unknown planet in the middle of a universal war. Can they trust each other to work together?
This is a wild planet they land on and the Admiral has all the scientific whiles of Mark - he could also be called the MacGyver of space. There is character building and back stories on each of the individuals during their fight to survive and find rescue. The book does not leave you dangling, but it does leave enough questions and an open ending to nicely move into additional novels, which I believe is the plan. I'll look forward to reading them.
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Roc/Berkley Publishing Group
May 3, 2016
Book Description:
FIRST IN A NEW MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES
“I was on a dead ship on an unknown planet with three trainees freshly graduated into the Imperial Service. I tried to look on the bright side.”
He is the last to wake. The label on his sleeper pad identifies him as an admiral of the Evagardian Empire—a surprise as much to him as to the three recent recruits now under his command. He wears no uniform, and he is ignorant of military protocol, but the ship's records confirm he is their superior officer.
Whether he is an Evagardian admiral or a spy will be of little consequence if the crew members all end up dead. They are marooned on a strange world, their ship's systems are failing one by one—and they are not alone.
“I was on a dead ship on an unknown planet with three trainees freshly graduated into the Imperial Service. I tried to look on the bright side.”
He is the last to wake. The label on his sleeper pad identifies him as an admiral of the Evagardian Empire—a surprise as much to him as to the three recent recruits now under his command. He wears no uniform, and he is ignorant of military protocol, but the ship's records confirm he is their superior officer.
Whether he is an Evagardian admiral or a spy will be of little consequence if the crew members all end up dead. They are marooned on a strange world, their ship's systems are failing one by one—and they are not alone.