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Carrion Duty

Necrospace, Book 5

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Hostile salvage confirmed.

Rhett Calibos is a bounty scrapper, his life as an indentured soldier a welcome alternative to imprisonment on a penal colony. A man haunted by his past, Rhett throws himself into the work, his only sanctuary. Sokol Targe is the leader of a mech warrior squad stationed aboard an ancient and deadly warship and conducts violent raids on behalf of a Red List commune. Cast away from corporate society, they have embraced the ravager way of life.

As these troubled men endure furious combat across the ragged edges of civilization, neither of them realize they've become entangled in the deeper mysteries of necrospace.

It's a hard universe, and nobody gets away clean.

©2017 Sean-Michael Argo (P)2018 Sean-Michael Argo Military Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction
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The age of the corporation. They owned everywhere and (almost) everyone. Without corporate 'protection' life could be both hard and short as redlisters found out. Carrion Duty is essentially the tale of two men living, seperately, on the fringes, Rhett, whose rebellion against his corporation's orders to exterminate a group of settlers landed him, first in prison then indentured to a salvage ship's company, and Sokul, pilot of a mech and following the orders of the ancient captain who oversaw The Rock, home of the Ravager commune. Eventually, the two meet.

This is a fast paced book, heavy with battle action but also with good character building. Inevitably, the reader realises that there will have to be a confrontation between the two very different main protagonists and loyalties are pulled between them.
Narrator Persephone Rose has a pleasantly mellifluous voice, fast paced, clear and well intoned. Speed of delivery and emotional imput is directed by the text and individual character voicings are distinctive: a good performance fitting the style of the book.

Although this is the fifth in the Necrospace series, it can easily be read as a stand alone. The very last chapter provides another change of direction suggesting a return to the beginnings for book six.
Good series and recommended for those who enjoy military/ action type science fiction.

Progress was as merciless as it was unstoppable.

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