The Last Squadron

By: Dan Jayson

Narrated by: Andy Ingalls, Sarah Borges

Just 15 years from now, the world is polarised along ethnic and religious lines. Regional low-intensity wars have now been raging for 35 years. In the midst of the conflict, 97 members of the Allied forces ninth Mountain Squadron en route from the Northern Front for a long awaited period of rest and relaxation, are shot down over the Nordic wilderness.

With no way of communicating with the outside world, the aircraft’s captain, Natasha Kavolsky, and the squadron commander, Major Alexander Burton, lead the squadron out of the wilderness only to discover that during their absence the world they knew has ceased to exist. This is a story of comradeship, hope and despair set in a world that is even now a real and terrifying possibility.

©2017 Dan Jayson (P)2021 W F Howes

Pretty good.

Never understood the need for 2 narrators. It was distracting when the man took over. Usually for just a short time.

just not good

The author has clearly no real familiarity with winter conditions, the story becomes very difficult to believe when the details are repeatedly way off. The military structure in the story is neither here nor there. The descriptions of near future military tech is better and what made me want to like this book. The narration would have been much better if the narrator had simply read the book, she has a very pleasant voice, and not tried to make an audioplay of it. The different voices and accents are horrible and distracting. Could not finish this.

It had potential, but...

I rarely write reviews. That said, this was horrible.

I'm a veteran. Even for a future military I couldn't begin to count the errors on anything military. Well rank maybe but even that was whacked.

I saw no value having two narrators. In fact bringing in the second narrator in half way startled me enough to play back a few minutes to even understand the shift.

And or all things holy, could the freaking editors or directors get a copy of common military acronyms and how to pronounce them?

Other than simply hard to follow, poor writing, and being a horribly uneccesarily complex story I can't imagine anything nice to say about it.

A complete and painful waste of time. Why then did I bother to listen? Well, by the hours in I was so pissed I wasted a credit, I was determined to suffer through to be as fair as I could be reviewing it.

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