Black Triumph
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
The conclusion to Brendan DuBois's Dark Victory alien-invasion trilogy. Best-selling and award-winning author Brendan DuBois proves that even in the most desperate of times, there are still men and women alive who will take up weapons to defend what is theirs.
More than ten years ago, the alien Creepers arrived in Earth’s orbit and started a war that was a slaughter for humanity. Nuclear weapons detonated in the atmosphere destroyed all electronic devices, asteroids dropped into oceans and lakes swamped cities with artificial tsunamis, and the nearly invulnerable Creepers arrived on Earth, going forth from their dome bases to attack civilians and military units at will.
Sixteen-year-old Randy Knox, a newly minted lieutenant in the U.S. Army, has been fighting the Creepers since he was twelve. He has seen friends, family members and fellow soldiers killed by the Creepers, and he is tired of war. At one point, it seemed the war was over when the aliens’ orbital battle station had been destroyed.
But a second Creeper orbital battle station has arrived.
The war no longer seems to be over, and while returning to his home unit, Randy’s convoy is ambushed. Separated from his fellow soldiers and his K-9 companion Thor, Randy faces the ultimate horror of every American serviceman: to become a prisoner of war of the aliens.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
DuBois underwhelms with a predictable conclusion to his alien invasion trilogy (following 2017's Red Vengeance) that fails to mitigate its pat story line with any emotional depth or evocative imagery. For a decade, Earth has been devastated by the Creepers, who use arthropodlike machines to shoot lasers and flames, and who have killed millions and reduced humanity to "a nineteenth-century way of life." Sixteen-year-old Sgt. Randy Knox, who has been fighting Creepers since he was 12, is reluctant to leave the U.S. Army unit known as Kara's Killers, but he's reassigned back to his home unit, the New Hampshire Army National Guard. His journey from Upstate New York is interrupted when he's captured by Creepers and confined to a base populated by desperate humans who are forced to fight each other to the death. DuBois's worldbuilding, plot twists, and characterizations contain no surprises and little entertainment.
