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Black Ops

Expeditionary Force, Book 4

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The elite crew of the pirate ship UNS Flying Dutchman had a simple mission: determining whether the Thuranin are sending another starship to Earth.

Along the way, they became sidetracked by securing a future for the UNEF troops on the planet Paradise. When asked whether Earth was now safe, their ancient alien AI responded "Not so much"...now they have to deal with the consequences.

©2017 Craig Alanson (P)2017 Podium Publishing Adventure Fantasy Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Opera Interstellar
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Hurry up and write the next one haha. This guy is excellent at cliff hanger endings. Though I will say the inclusion of book 3.5 made me lose track a little with the main plot.

Damn it

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Some things are certain in life.

Death, taxes and Craig Alanson writing wonderfully fun books.

I feel bad only giving 4*, and really it's 4.5* as I stayed up to 3am last night listening. But after 3 super previous books this one seemed to just slightly lack the originality of the first books. R C Bray is his usually genius self and in Skippy, I think I've found an audio character that will never be topped.

It's just that the jokes are now more comfortably familiar than laugh out loud (though lots of sniggering) and action scenes felt just a little flatter with plot twists even more outrageous. This is of course like criticising Usain Bolt for only running a 9.9s 100m. It's still great by any standards, but not quite the best. So overall great fun and my standout series of 2017 continues to deliver.

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#trust the awesomeness

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Love the book I need more now I have to spend all day finding something just as good

More please

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I wasn’t initially sure I would like listening to a book being read to me. But the quality of the stories as well as the Narrators has been exceptional.
Take this particular storyline about a group of individuals aka the band of pirates is grippingly good.
Every single chapter has been responsible for me losing sleep. Okay, I don’t have to keep cancelling the timers set to halt at the end of a chapter, but I just have to know what happens next.
I also enjoy listening to RC Bray, whatever title he is performing on. He makes the tale come to life. He has the ability to change his voice for every character that’s truly remarkable.
Keep them coming Audible.

This is The Edge of Your Seat Good

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A good ongoing story. Skippy seems a liite clipped in his abilities, but reasons for this are well explained and make the humans do more of the work. Skippys importance does become well defined too.

A great listen, that's hard to turn off

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