Trade War: Necrospace, Book 3

De: Sean-Michael Argo

Narrado por: Jeffrey Kafer

Business is war, and business is booming. Economic competition has escalated into a full-scale galactic conflict, and the salvage marines are pulling hard duty at the center of the catastrophe. All around them, vast armies of conscripts, convicts, and contractors are fighting their way across hostile alien worlds and through the cold void of space at the will of their corporate masters. Whether the marines are boldly piloting their scrap wagons through the debris fields of defeated battle fleets one step ahead of deadly slave traders, speeding in makeshift boats across a backwater planet towards a bloody conflict with the creatures that lurk just beneath the surface, or storming the trenches of a tomb world defended by pitiless mercenaries, everything is a race against other violent factions looking to cash in. Samuel Hyst is surviving the war one day at a time, though while he is away at war, his family must contend with new enemies and dangers of their own, and to reach them he will join a revolution.

©2016 Sean-Michael Argo (P)2017 Sean-Michael Argo

Very little space combat

Every science fiction story is a framework for examination of ideas of humanity. Well done you get people to examine ideas and concepts that they may otherwise reject without consideration by putting the story in an unfamiliar time and place with characters that they connect. The framework was very thin in this book. The characters were very basic. It was very much a labor union creation story set in space with some combat and that wasn't well done. This book is more of a detailed outline of a good story than an actual book.

Jeffrey Kafer did his usual great job narrating but it was difficult to breathe any life into these characters.