Dead Man's Debt (Poor Man's Fight)
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Dead Man's Debt (Poor Man's Fight)

MP3 CD – MP3 Audio, September 20, 2016

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Price
$10.52
Publisher
Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
ISBN-13
978-1531888794

Description

About the Author Elliott Kay grew up in Los Angeles and currently resides in Seattle, Washington. He has a bachelor’s degree in history and is a former member of the US Coast Guard. Kay has survived a motorcycle crash, severe seasickness, summers in Phoenix, and winters in Seattle.

Features & Highlights

  • "We require a different battlefield."
  • Nobody expected the war to last three hours, let alone three years. The star system of Archangel holds the line against invading corporate fleets, but a quarter of its territory is already lost. The navy can't hang on much longer. Faced with this grim truth, Archangel's leaders shift their strategy to diplomacy and espionage. For both arenas, they call upon a reluctant weapon: a frontline grunt named Tanner Malone.
  • These days Tanner doesn't aspire to win the war. He merely wants to survive it. Now he'll be thrust into the center of events once again, pulled back and forth from covert missions to the media spotlight. Yet with every battle, he gets closer to the old enemy hidden in the shadows and the ugly truth about the war that could unravel everything Archangel might hope to win.

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it is a hero story with a happy ending and

So one man throughout the course of three books is at the center of every major event in interstellar piracy, war, succession battles, politics and espionage. This book isn't about a realistic view of the future, it is a hero story with a happy ending and, since I enjoy those, 3 stars. It is not particularly well thought out; for example, the main political figure, president of one of the human interstellar polities that is a member of the Union (essentially the UN, although with slightly more power) doesn't work with his fellow leaders to address the concerns of Union politics, instead he authorizes illegal piracy to position himself to lead his people to war.

There are other problems like inconsistent technology. For example, we already have nascent AI and the very first quantum computers which will almost certainly make AI take off but the author apparently felt the need to ignore that so as to have humans at the heart of the conflict.

Bottom line: don't look to this book for insights into the future of humanity, but, if you enjoy a relatively straightforward space based hero story you should enjoy this.

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