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Strange Company

Strange Company, Book 1

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Strange Company

By: Nick Cole
Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant
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Stack bodies, get paid, get to the ship.

“If you can survive Reaper Platoon in the Strange, then Ghost or Dog Platoons will get you for their own. Best to steer clear of the freaks in Voodoo, kid.”

Surrounded and outgunned, a group of private military contractors known as “Strange Company” find themselves on a remote planet at the edge of known space, and on the losing end of a bad contract. Orbital D-beam strikes, dropships bristling with auto-guns, missiles, and troops - even Monarch space marines in state-of-the-art advanced battle rattle - will try to prevent the company from reaching the exfil LZ and getting off-world.

For Strange, that means it’s time to hang tough and get it on with as much hyper-kinetic violence as they can muster to get clear of the whole mess. And what the Strange can’t get done by violent assault and crazy firefights, they’ll get done by the freaks of Voodoo Platoon - operators who have been changed by the Dark Labs into powerful and unnervingly unnatural asymmetrical weapons.

This is the Strange Company. Because in the Strange, it’s always really Strange. Join them - and get ready for full auto combat at the furthest limits of human exploration.

©2021 Nick Cole (P)2021 Podium Audio Adventure Cyberpunk Fiction Military Science Fiction
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enjoyed performance but story was a downer. I listened through twice to make sure a I was being fair.

the bleak situation

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listen to this book three times now it speaks to me it makes me laugh and it's a rollercoaster

actually gave me the willies

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Really enjoyed this, brilliant writing and narrating. Vivid and descriptive with very memorable characters, definately reccomend.

Brilliant

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Cole is brilliant at capturing the insanity of warfare - especially the grey area of Mercenaries. The whole idea of decades of sub- light travel between missions is just mind blowing. The detail and world/tech building is incredible. The characterisation is utterly credible and Cole has created a superb cast of anti heroes and the occasional complete b*****d. The narration could not be more compelling. The only ONLY slight criticism I have is (SPOILER ALERT) that the ultra marines are not as invincible as they are built up to be. Seems that a rag tag crew of admittedly and obviously expert Mercs can hold their own against them pretty well. I’d love to ask Cole about this aspect because it features even more in the equally top drawer sequel (Voodoo Warfare). I still can’t recommend this book enough. It is haunting. Just brilliant. Can’t wait for number 3 - hopefully any time now? 🤞🏻

Superb.

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I initially gave up listening to this book after the first chapter which I found to be vastly different to the authors GE book series but I reflected on my actions and listened to all the book and i am so glad i did, it's not heroes and villains, it's about the grey areas no one likes to talk about, thank you Nick Cole, and also excellent narration

Disturbing but such a great story

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