Orders of Battle, Marko Kloos
Orders of Battle, Marko Kloos
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Orders of Battle

Author: Marko Kloos

Narrator: Eric G. Dove

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/09/2021

Synopsis

The battle against the Lankies has been won. Earth seems safe. Peacetime military? Not on your life.It’s been four years since Earth threw its full military prowess against the Lanky incursion. Humanity has been yanked back from the abyss of extinction. The solar system is at peace. For now.The future for Major Andrew Grayson of the Commonwealth Defense Corps and his wife, Halley? Flying desk duty on the front. No more nightmares of monstrous things. No more traumas to the mind and body. But when an offer comes down from above, Andrew has to make a choice: continue pushing papers into retirement, or jump right back into the fight? What’s a podhead to do?The remaining Lankies may have retreated in fear, but the threat isn’t over. They need to be wiped out for good before they strike again. That’ll take a new offensive deployment. Aboard an Avenger warship, Andrew and the special tactics team under his command embark on the ultimate search-and-destroy mission. This time, it’ll be on Lanky turf.No big heroics. No unnecessary risks. Just a swift hit-and-run raid in the hostile Capella system. Blow the alien seed ships into oblivion and get the hell back to Earth. At least, that’s the objective. But when does anything in war go according to plan?

About Marko Kloos

Marko Kloos is the author of two military science fiction series: The Palladium Wars, which includes Aftershocks and Ballistic, and the Frontlines series, which includes, most recently, Points of Impact. Born in Germany and raised in and around the city of Münster, Marko was previously a soldier, bookseller, freight dockworker, and corporate IT administrator before deciding that he wasn’t cut out for anything except making stuff up for fun and profit. A member of George R. R. Martin’s Wild Cards consortium, Marko writes primarily science fiction and fantasy—his first genre loves ever since his youth, when he spent his allowance on German SF pulp serials. He likes bookstores, kind people, October in New England, fountain pens, and wristwatches. Marko resides at Castle Frostbite in New Hampshire with his wife, two children, and roving pack of voracious dachshunds. For more information visit www.markokloos.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sebastian on December 18, 2020

I wish I could give two ratings here, one for the completely unnecessary and rather cringey first half of the book and then a completely different one for the exhilarating second half. It’s almost as if Kloos, tired from this being book 7 in the series kept treading through a muddy quagmire of “what......more

Goodreads review by Deb on December 17, 2020

Good series of you like sci fi! Looking forward to next book in the series. Kind of a cliff hanger. I have different scenarios going on in my head.......more

Goodreads review by Marcus on September 04, 2022

Just when you think it's over... I'm always amazed at how Kloos figures out how to up the odds in this series. After ten years of war for Grayson, the reader is always wondering how much more he can take. This book, even Grayson is asking those questions, and the answer is amazing. It's good to see t......more

Goodreads review by Charles on March 16, 2021

Here we are, 7 books in and we still don't know much about the alien antagonists. The worldbuilding is still not as fleshed out as you would expect after thousands and thousands of pages. Dialogue has come a long way since the first book where everyone literally sounds like the same person, but its......more

Goodreads review by Rick on January 01, 2021

Frustrated You don’t get to the 7th book in a series without loving the series and the author. But I was just so disappointed with this book. I like the characters. I love the world that’s been built, along with the challenges faced by that world. So why am I frustrated? Well, when I buy a book I hop......more

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