The Chiral Protocol

The Biogenesis War, Book 2

By: L.L. Richman

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

Countdown to annihilation.

An Alliance asset is found brutally murdered. Classified chiral material has vanished. Shadow Recon pilot Micah Case is the only human in existence who is immune to the weapon the Akkadians have developed using the stolen samples.

Now, a member of the team has disappeared. Micah must find his missing teammate, track down the samples, and destroy the Akkadian laboratory before they unleash the deadly package. If they can't stop it in time, it's not the end of the world. It's the end of all life as we know it.

Includes Ambush in the Sargon Straits, a bonus novella from the Biogenesis Wars series.

©2020 L.L. Richman (P)2021 Podium Audio

Great story!

Fantastic space adventure! The characters are well developed and engaging. If you like military and fantasy this is a great pick.

Wonderful Techno-Thriller with plenty of SF!

chi·ral·i·ty. Noun
The aspect of a structure or property, such that the configuration of a molecule, or the spin of a particle, will distinguish that structure or property from its mirror image/symmetrical opposite. Also referred to as Right/Left handedness.



What a wonderful Techno-Thriller! With plenty of hard Scifi thrown in, and some good old fashioned firefighting techniques to boot! Well... "old fashioned" if you can believe in Spaceships flying in atmo dropping a payload of fire retardant! I just Freaking well loved it!
There's an evil Alien race (the Akkadians) who're at odds with humans, and more than willing to initiate a bio-weaponized genocide of the human race! It's up to the doppelgangers (the Chiral pairs of both human, and beast), the scientists, and the military to stop the war!
We've got cats... Big Cats, with attitude... plus some Very enthusiastic ferrets that want to help by getting in your face (that's helping too, isn't it?!??).
There's a mystery to work out, a pandemic to stop, and maybe, just maybe, an Akkadian who's willing to reach out and end the madness...
So grab this marvelous book and see what the Wonderful Tom Taylorson (our narrator) and Sneaky Pete (the ferret) have to say! Oh yeah, LL Richman's writing is so beautiful and rich, that I bet you won't leave unscathed, I know that I actually cried at one point...

A million thrills as Chirality threatens to stamp out the Galaxy! Fast sleek spacecraft and experienced military operators take

Finding a book of this caliber in this day and age really surprised me. I thought books of this breadth were long gone. This brings back memories of the classics such as Heinlein combined with technothrillers like Clancy. Here we have a high speed low drag adventure in the black of space, from planets to space stations to moons our hero’s must try and stay a step ahead of all out catastrophe for the Galaxy. An evil communists like empire threatens to tame the upper hand away from peace and democracy. We have everything from Special Forces Operators to Ace Pilots operating advanced spacecraft in the black to spies running afoul of each other; and don’t forget assassin’s, within is one of the best. Richman can create villains that you love to hate. All in all it’s a realistic take on a common trope of power run amok in overzealous leaders hands. Listen as Micah, Jonathon, Thad and the team can thwart Acadia and with Dacina on the loose. Can Task Force Blue win the day. This is a thrill a minute, edge of the seat ride that promises loss of sleep and zinging excitement in the new horizon of space.

confusing with too much detail

I've listened to hundreds of audiobooks and few of them, if any, have kept me so confused about who is who. I think part of it is that characters are referenced by first name, last name and rank/title alternately (for example, Captain, Micah, Case). Then there are sound-alikes such as Raef and Wraith. Taylorson's narration offers few favors in this regard, especially with female characters.

I found it hard to maintain suspension of disbelief throughout this novel. The chirality premise and associated entanglement side-effects of these novels are stretched. I do not understand at all how two panthers (or whatever) get a human sense of humor just by having a "wire" inserted. Even harder to understand the ferrets. Just silly, really.

The action parts of the story could be okay, except there is so much detail interspersed that it becomes dull, especially with the lackluster narration.

The Liege-Killer-like Micah-Jonathan merge appears only briefly in this novel, as it did in the last. There is still no sign of any Biogenesis War going on.

I don't believe I will be following up with the third book.