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Escalation

Maelstrom Rising Series, Book 1

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Escalation

By: Peter Nealen
Narrated by: Steve Marvel
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About this listen

A Storm Is About to Break....

The mission was straightforward enough. Infiltrate civil-war-torn Slovakia, rescue the hostage, then get out undetected.

Except that it's not Matt Bowen's first rodeo. He and his teammates know well just how badly things can go once the metal meets the meat.

But even these hardened combat veterans aren't ready for what's about to go down....

A coordinated surprise attack. Massacres in the countryside. The next world war might have just kicked off, in a storm of blood, fire, and betrayal.

©2019 Peter Nealen (P)2019 Tantor Genre Fiction Military Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction War cowboy

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loads of acronyms hard to work it out sometimes.
reader really good. made the story.
felt the characters
some good descriptions.

decent story

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In late 2024 we are moving through challenging geopolitical times and this book hints at a possible direction.
But I found the pace slow the plot a little thin and characters forgettable. On short not so thrilling adventure.
So much so I called it time halfway through to try another book I may come back and give it another shot but for now I’m out.

Workmanlike - did not hold my interest.

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The self commentary and continuous explanations too much . American mercenaries already a reality of our time being called contractors in US.

Future pessimism and American angle

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