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Rescue One by Michael Gardner is a creatively imagined and totally consistent future world where humans have achieved faster than light travel and have colonized far off planets. Paraiso (one of these colonized planets) is in the grip of a dangerous pandemic, and the crew of Rescue One is tasked with delivering a newly formulated vaccine to its citizens. The mission is dangerously compromised by the possibility of an undercover mole on-board and a well-funded and sophisticated band of eco-terror
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Sam Swain is Mission Commander aboard Rescue One, a faster-than-light spacecraft charged with rushing into danger to save lives and ships. His craft is the space-faring equivalent of an ambulance, and his crew are the paramedics, the EMTs who will risk life and limb to deliver others from danger. In this case, however, it’s not just the injured crew of a disabled freighter they must rescue, it’s a world being threatened with extinction by a lethal virus. Their task: bring the vaccine to the dyin
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'Rescue One' is set in the not so distant future and follows the faster-than-light adventure of a space rescue team. What starts out as a difficult but successful rescue mission, ends as a seemingly routine assignment to save an entire planet. But the mission goes disastrously wrong. Caught in an age-old conflict between world governments and terrorists, the lives and destinies of entire planetary populations rely on the extraordinary courage and honesty of these brave, competent heroes.
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Deep space thrillride!
A tightly written SF thriller, and I do mean thriller - this kept me hooked for the several hours, almost a single sitting, in which I devoured this shortish novel. Make no mistake, short is not bad. It's relatively short (about 35k words) because it's so tightly written and well edited.
A dynamite package lands in the lap of commander Sam Swain and his flawed but feisty crew, and they must keep up with the different ways it bounces. Characterization is just one of the outs ...more
A tightly written SF thriller, and I do mean thriller - this kept me hooked for the several hours, almost a single sitting, in which I devoured this shortish novel. Make no mistake, short is not bad. It's relatively short (about 35k words) because it's so tightly written and well edited.
A dynamite package lands in the lap of commander Sam Swain and his flawed but feisty crew, and they must keep up with the different ways it bounces. Characterization is just one of the outs ...more
