Pariah, W. Michael Gear
Pariah, W. Michael Gear
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Pariah

Author: W. Michael Gear

Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan

Unabridged: 19 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/27/2019


Synopsis

The third book in the thrilling Donovan series, a sci-fi action adventure set on a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists. Corporate assassin Tamarland Benteen's last hope is the survey ship Vixen. With a load of scientists aboard under the supervision of Dr. Dortmund Weisbacher, Vixen is tasked with the first comprehensive survey of the newly discovered planet called Donovan. Given that back in Solar System, Boardmember Radcek would have Benteen's brain dissected, he's particularly motivated to make his escape. The transition that should have taken Vixen years is instantaneous. Worse, a space ship is already orbiting Donovan, and, impossibly, human settlements have been established on the planet. For Dortmund Weisbacher, this is a violation of the most basic conservation tenets. Donovan is an ecological disaster. Down on Donovan, Talina Perez takes refuge in the ruins of Mundo Base with the wild child, Kylee Simonov. But the quetzals are playing their own deadly game: one that forces Talina and Kylee to flee farther into the wilderness. Too bad they're stuck with Dortmund Weisbacher in the process. Back in Port Authority, Dan Wirth discovers that he's not the meanest or deadliest man on the planet. Tamarland Benteen is making his play for control of PA. And in the final struggle, if Benteen can't have it, he'll destroy it all.

About W. Michael Gear

W. Michael Gear is the author or coauthor with his beloved wife, Kathleen O'Neal Gear, of fifty-seven published novels. He is a New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author whose work has been translated into twenty-nine languages and has over 17 million copies in print world wide. Both an anthropologist and archaeologist, he brings extraordinary depth and complexity to his characters and settings. Gear lives on a back country buffalo ranch in Wyoming where he raises outstanding bison, indulges in his passion for large-caliber rifles, and pets his two shelties: Jake and Shannon. Michael can be found at gear-gear.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Justine on July 30, 2019

3.5 stars This was entertaining, but not as much as the first two books, Outpost and Abandoned. The story in this third book felt a bit recycled at times, with Benteen's storyline a bit of a rehash of Wirth's in Outpost. Talina's mystical Maya journey as her body and mind cope with the integration of......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on May 08, 2019

You can find the full review and all the fancy and/or randomness that accompanies it at It Starts at Midnight 4.5* This... this series cannot actually be over, right? RIGHT!? Straight up this is one of the only series I have started and finished in the last few years- because I couldn't not finish i......more

Goodreads review by Jim on October 31, 2020

Definitely a good book, but somehow I didn't like it as much as the previous two. I'm glad I read it, wouldn't have missed it, though. I'm pretty turned off by religious myths & there's a lot of that in this book, but it was in a good cause. It did help make some sense out of the situation, although......more

Goodreads review by Bentley ★ Bookbastion.net on May 23, 2020

Wavering between 3 and 4 stars here. I always enjoy returning to Donovan, but the plot was a little lacking. I appreciate what the character of Talina is becoming, but I don't know that we needed an entire book dedicated to her spiritual journey to become something more than human. Also, Tamarland B......more

Goodreads review by Mieczyslaw on October 03, 2020

I've got a friend who is very suspicious of American SF; "It's all cowboys and Indians in space," he says. Before I continue please remember that I've given this 5 stars because I love the story and I love the Donovan series... but... Somehow this book HAS turned into cowboys and Indians in space. I w......more