• Chasing the Dragon

  • Galaxy’s Edge: Contracts & Terminations
  • By: Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
  • Narrated by: Ray Porter
  • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (3,048 ratings)

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Chasing the Dragon

By: Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
Narrated by: Ray Porter
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Publisher's summary

They all want the Dragon dead.

The Dragon was trained from his youth to operate as a lethal killing machine. He has tangled with crime lords, dangerous insurgents, even Nether Ops...and none of these forces has been able to bring the elusive warrior to heel.

Enter the notorious bounty hunter Tyrus Rechs.

Rechs takes on the job as a favor to an old Savage Wars buddy. Only Rechs isn’t out to kill the Dragon - his mission is to save the kid’s life.

Unless the Dragon kills Rechs first.

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Best of Galaxy's Edge

Requiem for Medusa and Chasing the Dragon are unequivocally the two best prequels in Anspach and Cole's outstanding Galaxy's Edge series.
What makes them so outstanding? Four things:
1. Rex is the main protagonist in both novels;
2. Both stories have captivating and complex plot lines, and they're also chock-full of brutal action scenes;
3. Anspach and Cole's writing is exceptional, offering vivid descriptions of people and planets along the galactic ring, and providing the characters with multidimensional and dynamic personalities;
4. Ray Porter's narration is truly superb.
(IMO, Porter and Bray are the only two narrators capable of hopping in to properly narrate any given story in Galaxy's Edge, without either butchering the voices primary characters or disrupting the overall flow of the story.)
Both Requiem for Medusa and Chasing the Dragon have rightfully earned my highest recommendation. Bravo!

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okay story with great performance

Pretty much a stand alone story about Tyrus Rex and his adventures in days past. Plenty of action and adventure but in the end the point to it all is hard to find. Skip it or listen to it, won't make much difference to appreciating the original series any more or less.

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99% chase, 1% confrontation, 0% personality

When it comes to Galaxy’s Edge sci-fi military books, I tend to only enjoy the novellas because the full length books spend too much time on jingoism, battle p@rn, and point versus enlisted preachiness. However, this trilogy thankfully gives a better balance by dialing down the military side and amping up the sci-fi, Star Wars-like side. Also, the focus is on T Rechs’s bounty hunting years, which is also a plus.

I quite liked book 1 in this spin-off trilogy. That one gave a great space-spaghetti western revenge tale combined with a Battle Royale /Hunger Games finish, while also giving a meaty chunk of backstory for immortal soldier turned bounty hunter Rechs. This one promised an epic confrontation between old and new kings of the hill as Rechs tracks down the Dragon, who is at the top of the galaxy’s hit list. Unfortunately, the entire time, there’s very little interaction between the two and barely a mano-a-mano “who’s the better killer” fight scene. Instead, we get crumbs of a backstory for both, told mostly through a sappy two second flashbacks (“ball”), that kind of works to give us a Pavlovian release at the end.

But, other than Rechs (and maybe Fancypants), no one else in this book has much personality, backstory, or clever dialogue... just a series of flat, stock characters who appear only long enough to serve their plot-device purpose. This was decent as a sale purchase, but that’s about it.

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disney...

not at all like the original books in the series. childish and not as clever written. I'm never surprised. what happened???

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More, please!

The awesome thing about the Galaxy's Edge tangent stories is not only do you get a great adventure to listen to, you also get all kinds of information that enhances the main series, without any redundancy or retreads. You don't even realize you've expanded your knowledge of GE until the next time you listen to it. You think you're familiar with the story and suddenly it's in 4K now. Makes you wonder where the hell was my head at when I listened to this last time?! Wow. So much more vivid. Scenes that were no big deal take on weight and significance and characters that faded into the background are stepping off the page. Pretty amazing writing if you ask me.

So, besides that subtle bonus, you also get a _great_ story in Chasing the Dragon. The second installment of the Tyrus Rechs mini series is a well rounded action adventure that takes place on the reclusive Sinasian worlds at the galaxy's edge. Beautiful locales, exotic tech, interesting bots, kick ass fighting and more insight into the life and experiences of the long lived warrior. Oh! And excellent narration too. I wish there was a third installment about this fascinating character.

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Awesome read

Action packed from start to finish. Strap in for another tale in the galaxy centered around Tyrus Rex and his pursuit of the mysterious bounty "The Dragon". Is the Dragon friend, foe, or just another bounty for Tyrus to cash in on. Find out in this installment in the Galaxys Edge series.

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Another Enjoyable Adventure!

Bittersweet and poignant as always, Galaxy’s Edge delivers another adventure where an anti-hero bounty hunter tries to right one of the wrongs he let happen.

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Deja vu,-all over again. It's a good story telling

Write what you know!
Either it seems these authors have served as did I in the Nam war as a grunt in
VietNam (I Corp 1968 - 69) . Story setting is another world around a far star .
I think you would be advised to find, and begin with book one, This story floats well on its own. I will now seek it out with high hopes as I have enjoyed this listen.

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solid entry into the saga

A breeze to listen to with no let up in the story. Well narrated and smooth story flow. Great listen!

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Middle of the Road

I think these stories are going to dispel the myth and the mystic around the General with more of them coming if they continue to make him out to be so weak. I think this guy was a lot harder because he is a Ranger from Earth, who has been a slave for over 200 years as an experiment for the rich and powerful. I expected him to be much stronger and unforgiving, rather than falling for simple traps that a pretty face and a pair of boobs set up with some kind words.

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