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Liberation War #2
Assault
A year has passed since an alien invasion left Earth with staggering losses but it has been time well spent. Salvaging parts from their attacker, humanity has reverse engineered much of the advanced technology, leapfrogging years of research. Now, having adapted faster than light travel for their own ends, they are finally prepared to leave their own solar system. And none too soon. A distress signal is discovered by a salvage crew, a message from a nearby star system under siege by raiders. This pushes the timetable, forcing humanity to make their journey sooner than anticipated. Their goal is build an alliance with other benevolent races, to secure friendship against an inevitable future attack. Helping fend off criminals seems like a perfect first step toward that end. But when they arrive, they find their opponents are hardened professionals, dangerous and willing to fight to the death. As the human crew finds themselves in a vicious battle, they must pull out all the stops, using all their military experience to stand against the threat. A loss would be catastrophic not only for the culture they’re trying to help but for the very future of humanity.
229 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 14, 2019
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April 17, 2019
Earth is recovering from the devastating attack by the Collector ship. It took thousands of humans aboard using small atmospheric aircraft and some kind of transportation device. These humans were then processed to recover their “essence” which seems to be a valuable commodity for the galactic community. Human essence is used to enhance and extend other aliens bodies at a great expense to those who use it. Obviously, this makes the harvesting of humans are real profitable venture. Except, this time the humans fought back. That was all in book one.
Now, after recovering a ton of technology from the wrecked Collector ship, humanity have began to reverse engineer a lot of this new tech. It has pushed Earth two or three centuries up the technology ladder and has now placed them on the brink of experiencing FTL travel via a wormhole device. All the Earth scientist believe it will work, but they need to test it first. The Earth’s only starship, the Leviathan, was scheduled to conduct that test in the very near future. That schedule got change quickly when a distress signal was found suddenly activate within the debris field of the Collector ship. All the signal translates into is that someone outside the Solar System needs help.
Since Earth was going to have to find some allies somewhere and soon, it was decided that the Leviathan would leave immediately and use the wormhole drive to reach these aliens in need of help. Captain Warren Miller was all for getting his starship launched, especially now that they have a specific mission in front of them. He had no doubts the wormhole drive would work, but his entire crew was very understandably nervous when the time came to “flip the switch”.
The only thing usual about this trip, other than it would go farther than any human had before, was the inclusion of a reporter/journalist named Dirk Reidel. It was thought that he could report on something positive for humanity reaching out to the stars after their first experience with aliens turned into a colossal disaster. Whether this reporter could stand this trip in to space and if he was smart enough to stay out of the way was to be seen.
Now the mission of the Leviathan was to good through a wormhole and arrive in some distant star system and do whatever to help the aliens that sent the distress signal. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a lot of intel as to what the ship might encounter, so this was a blind shot in the dark. Who knows how bad the situation will be on the “other side” and what happens if the wormhole drive breaksdown while they are a long ways from home?
A pretty good book with an interesting story. It’s just amazing that with all their now advanced technology, Earth scientist haven’t the brains to install redundant systems aboard the Leviathan. It seems that if some system breaks-down, it’s down until they can fix it. Not the best of any situation considering you’re deep in space when the breakdowns happen. Maybe they’ll figure that out in book three, “Revolution Rising”, already available on Amazon. Then, maybe not!
Now, after recovering a ton of technology from the wrecked Collector ship, humanity have began to reverse engineer a lot of this new tech. It has pushed Earth two or three centuries up the technology ladder and has now placed them on the brink of experiencing FTL travel via a wormhole device. All the Earth scientist believe it will work, but they need to test it first. The Earth’s only starship, the Leviathan, was scheduled to conduct that test in the very near future. That schedule got change quickly when a distress signal was found suddenly activate within the debris field of the Collector ship. All the signal translates into is that someone outside the Solar System needs help.
Since Earth was going to have to find some allies somewhere and soon, it was decided that the Leviathan would leave immediately and use the wormhole drive to reach these aliens in need of help. Captain Warren Miller was all for getting his starship launched, especially now that they have a specific mission in front of them. He had no doubts the wormhole drive would work, but his entire crew was very understandably nervous when the time came to “flip the switch”.
The only thing usual about this trip, other than it would go farther than any human had before, was the inclusion of a reporter/journalist named Dirk Reidel. It was thought that he could report on something positive for humanity reaching out to the stars after their first experience with aliens turned into a colossal disaster. Whether this reporter could stand this trip in to space and if he was smart enough to stay out of the way was to be seen.
Now the mission of the Leviathan was to good through a wormhole and arrive in some distant star system and do whatever to help the aliens that sent the distress signal. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a lot of intel as to what the ship might encounter, so this was a blind shot in the dark. Who knows how bad the situation will be on the “other side” and what happens if the wormhole drive breaksdown while they are a long ways from home?
A pretty good book with an interesting story. It’s just amazing that with all their now advanced technology, Earth scientist haven’t the brains to install redundant systems aboard the Leviathan. It seems that if some system breaks-down, it’s down until they can fix it. Not the best of any situation considering you’re deep in space when the breakdowns happen. Maybe they’ll figure that out in book three, “Revolution Rising”, already available on Amazon. Then, maybe not!
April 10, 2019
A JW. SYFY. Novel (LAB - 2)/Earth Begins to Fight Back With An Assist From The Lady Alien
JW. has. penned a SYFY. novel, the second in the Liberation War series. With the help of the rescued lady alien Earth forces have reverse engineered the destroyed space craft. There have been new developments as construction continues. The Lady alien continues to offer advice in how to handle certain things in combat, but she is surprised at how fast the Earth humans had developed new systems that she had never seen before. This is an excellent read for the genre..... DEHS
JW. has. penned a SYFY. novel, the second in the Liberation War series. With the help of the rescued lady alien Earth forces have reverse engineered the destroyed space craft. There have been new developments as construction continues. The Lady alien continues to offer advice in how to handle certain things in combat, but she is surprised at how fast the Earth humans had developed new systems that she had never seen before. This is an excellent read for the genre..... DEHS
February 28, 2019
Book 2 of this series find the reader a year on from the end of book 2, a call for help is heard. But answering it is not going to be without a price. But it will possibility give earth it's first ally. Looking forward to book 3 shortly.
March 14, 2019
This is an excellent novel.
This is the second book in this series. Both novels have been excellent. I found the premise to be intriguing and the characters to be believable. Can't wait until the next novel comes out.
This is the second book in this series. Both novels have been excellent. I found the premise to be intriguing and the characters to be believable. Can't wait until the next novel comes out.
April 5, 2019
I tried
Read the first book and it wasn’t too bad. Decided to read the series and got almost halfway through the second book and had to give it up. I’ve read some Walker books before but this just don’t stand up
Read the first book and it wasn’t too bad. Decided to read the series and got almost halfway through the second book and had to give it up. I’ve read some Walker books before but this just don’t stand up
April 10, 2019
Exciting action packed
Lots of action, reasonable coverage of technology only a few issue. One minute the priestess is head of a read sect the next she is bringing in lots of support? Wtf?
Lots of action, reasonable coverage of technology only a few issue. One minute the priestess is head of a read sect the next she is bringing in lots of support? Wtf?
April 26, 2019
Adventures in space
Fleet does the flying and the marines do the dying..
Great characters with realistic situations and lots of action and adventure.
I look forward to more from this series 😁
Fleet does the flying and the marines do the dying..
Great characters with realistic situations and lots of action and adventure.
I look forward to more from this series 😁
January 5, 2022
4.5 stars
Another well written book by John Walker, ive got to say, I am really enjoying this series. The characters are wonderful, and the action is well described and immersive. I find it difficult to find any flaws so far. Would recommend
Another well written book by John Walker, ive got to say, I am really enjoying this series. The characters are wonderful, and the action is well described and immersive. I find it difficult to find any flaws so far. Would recommend
March 1, 2019
Fantastic
Well book 2 was a great story setting the human race into a collision of a galactic war. They do need to get more help
Well book 2 was a great story setting the human race into a collision of a galactic war. They do need to get more help
May 10, 2019
Great
I'm loving these stories by John Walker. Very realistic feeling of the future in space for mankind. He is a good story teller and I enjoy reading these books.
I'm loving these stories by John Walker. Very realistic feeling of the future in space for mankind. He is a good story teller and I enjoy reading these books.
May 15, 2019
Early Bova
Reminds me of an early Ben Bova novel about first contact with another more advanced civilization can't remember the title anymore but fun to read
Reminds me of an early Ben Bova novel about first contact with another more advanced civilization can't remember the title anymore but fun to read
June 21, 2019
Another great book
Another great book from this author. Good storyline, character development. I'll definitely be reading more of this series when the next book comes out
Another great book from this author. Good storyline, character development. I'll definitely be reading more of this series when the next book comes out
September 5, 2019
I started my journey in this book on August 17, 2019. Since then I already read 8 books. The story is amazing. The characters are perfect. The author never rush the story plot, and on every book the final was reach without any rush. I hope the author keeps giving us more of the series in the future. And I definitely will seek other book from him.
September 21, 2022
There was some improvement over the previous book. A few bits of military-ish lingo made it in, and the spelling and grammar were both better. We're still facing issues with non-humans, though - stained glass windows, pews, and essentially a vaguely Catholic description of a place of worship off world? They also speak English? The science is still... well, if a shuttle does a burn to move away from a geostationary object and manages to "brush against the outer atmosphere" by traveling several hundred meters, I suppose we'll just chalk it up to artistic license.
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