Lt. Reilly - Bundle: 5 Book Series

by Matthew O. Duncan

Jack Reilly's luck ran out just before the war did. Resigning his commission in the Alliance shortly after the end of the war with the Serkins, he went out into the galaxy looking for a job. Signing onto the Glacier Runner 17, an old and rundown cargo ship, Reilly finds himself working for a clueless captain, mixed-up in an intergalactic conspiracy, on the run from assassins, and involved with two women in relationships that he could only call "complicated."
And that's just book #1. Follow Lt. Jack Reilly and his partner Major Mitchel through their adventures.
Bundle Pack includes - Lt. Reilly 2321 - Lt. Reilly and the Backbird Offensive - Lt. Reilly and the Phantom Raptor - Major Mitchell and the Carplex Conspiracy - Lt. Reilly and the Tansky Gambit

1370 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 1, 2022

About the author

Matthew O. Duncan is part of the resurgence of Old School Sci-fi. His books are a mix of Military Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, and Mystery weaved together with non-stop action.

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Reviews

[Kristjan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Performance: *****
Story: ****

The narration for the Lt Reilly PoV (books 1, 2, 3 & 5) was about as good as I have ever encountered without a cast, with a near perfect combination of timber, tone and accent to make each character distinct. The Major Mitchell PoV (book 4) changes narrators and that performance was almost sub par for me. Weighing in at nearly 37 hours for all five(5) books, this was still a bargain. The high quality of the performance and story just make it more so.

The world building here was solid for a sci-fi universe. There were a few tech issues that I could easily gloss over, but the over all feel of this military adventure was totally relatable and even a tad nostalgic for me (full disclosure - I was trained as a naval engineer … so it hit all of the small details just right). Most of the issues were in the small descriptive text (data dumps) that expounded on various tech and situations for context … fortunately they were brief enough that they didn’t take you out of the story and most seemed quite reasonable. The setting mostly revolves around the human worlds (so there are brief interactions with aliens) that could almost be dystopian with the various crime syndicates playing the bad guys (or enabling the bad guys). Intersystem space travel uses quantum tech (because warp tech is so last year) and sentient AI(s) that have been reigned in a bit to prevent them from taking over the world (so either limited and/or compartmentalized). Weapon systems are either lasers or missiles (missing PDS and rail guns) with energy shields and light armor. All just enough to make it real without diving down into the weeds.

Reilly is the PC and is a seasoned space engineer and all around good guy recruited into being a military investigator (giving us the the overall theme of the series). Mitchell is primarily a supporting character (serving mostly as a foil and potential love interest with a twist) and doesn’t do quite as well for me when taking point in book 4 (by far the weakest of the series). Kayla is the primary love interest and only takes the stage to provide a human context to the PC. With all that in mind, each story can actually stand on its own with new secrets and interesting conspiracies that are all satisfactorily resolved at the end (and since I am a sucker for happy endings … you get a +1 here). The humor and byplay between characters was easy, fun mostly believable (if a bit pollyannish).

1. Lt. Reilly 2321
2. Lt. Reilly and the Backbird Offensive
3. Lt. Reilly and the Phantom Raptor
4. Major Mitchell and the Carplex Conspiracy
5. Lt. Reilly and the Tansky Gambit

I was given this free advance review/listener copy (ARC) audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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[odedo1 Audio book worm. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome, worth every penny !

The best:
Five books collection
for the price of one.

It’s impossible not to love
L.T. Reilly.


Matthew O. Duncan came up with a simple experience military LT. Reilly, a character which you just can’t not like, the guy an excellent mechanic and at times an investigator ( when needed ), he can fix anything in a spaceship and like a magician always find a way to solve problems even in wars.

As usual Caroline McLaughlin narration is always right on and perfectly done always creating a masterpiece of an audiobooks including this one !


Absolutely
without a doubt
I fully recommend
this collection of
five audiobooks !


Oded Ostfeld.

[Wyatt Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

I expected this to be one of the "underdog vs the alien invaders" series of books but I was mistaken. This is mostly about Lt Reilly (although book 4 is mostly about Major Mitchell) who, as an engineer, has to think his way out of situations that most other people would panic and die in.

The story-lines are intelligent and engaging and the characters believable. I'm very glad that the "complicated" relationship between Reilly and the two main female characters remains "complicated" without becoming a harem situation.

I received a free copy of this audio-book bundle and chose to write a review.

[Call me Jeeves · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay so I read all five books and I can honestly say some forms of plagiarism may exist. In fact there are books series that are so close in context and concepts that it seems all three authors were in a room colluding with each other .
Books 1,2,3,5 were really good. Book four was a stinker. In fact four and five tie in together, the story is not very clear and the characters just move along. You don’t really develop that feel for them