Commander James Bell is sent on a mission that will shape the future of his career in the Terran Space Fleet. He is to lead a squad tasked to recover the contents of a cargo ship that has been shot down. His career so far has been one failure after another. Will he be able to redeem himself?
Not the best but not the worst military science fiction. The stock characters aren't shining examples of their types but also aren't beastly.
The aliens aren't given much description and the human government isn't described at all.
The human race is defended by an all American fleet with all American names as standard. A reader/writer almost started a comment war with me in defence of this cornerstone prrmise. He even found Wikipedia proof that non Anglo surnames would not be represented five hundred, a thousand or three thousand years from now. To feel The need to defend those suppositions is weird. This writer does have a token Japanese marine which is better than a lot of these stories.
There isn't much substance to this book but I am going to see if there is another book to explain some of what is missing.
Man of few words loved it keep it coming. Been reading sci fi since the fifth grade back in 75 first book Freddy goes to mars got the same feeling from this book .more please