Veteran
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4.5 • 21 Ratings
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
Three hundred years in our future, in a world of alien infiltrators, religious hackers, a vast convoying nation of Nomads, city sized orbital elevators, and a cyborg pirate king who believes himself to be a mythological demon Jakob is having a bad day:
"Nothing gets in the way of a hangover like being reactivated by your old C.O. and told to track down an alien killing machine. The same kind of killing machine that wiped out my entire squad. And now it's in my hometown.
My name is Jakob Douglas, ex-special forces. I fought Them. Just like we've all been doing for 60 bloody years. But I thought my part in that was done with.
My boss has other ideas. If I didn't find the infiltrator then he'd let the Grey Lady loose on me. And believe me; even They've got nothing on her. So I took the job. It went to shit even faster than normal.
And now I'm on the run with this teenage hacker who's had enough of prostitution. The only people I can rely on want to turn the internet into God. And now it turns out that They aren't quite what we'd all thought.
I've been to the bottom of the sea and the top of the sky and beyond trying to get to the truth.
And I still can't get far enough away from the Grey Lady. All things considered I'd rather be back at home deep in a whiskey bottle."
Veteran is a fast paced, intricately plotted violent SF Thriller set in a dark future against the backdrop of a seemingly never ending war against an unknowable and implacable alien enemy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a world where a nightmarish future war is waged against an alien menace on Earth's colony planets, veteran Jakob comes home to find life there isn't much better: the rich live inside beautiful parks, and everyone else is crammed into lawless, violent slums. Jakob is sent to kill a captive alien, but Morag, a telepathic teen who swears she can sense its friendly intent, gets him to rescue it instead. With a motley crew of hackers and veterans, they set out to stop the war by turning the Internet into a self-aware god. Despite interesting characters and moments of hilarious creativity New York is a notorious pirate haven; corporate samurai duel for promotion the cyborg hackers, hideous mutants, starving masses, and endless war (all the fault of "fat old rich guys," of course) never develop beyond dystopian clich . This is a beach read for the Warhammer 40,000 crowd.
Customer Reviews
Rip-roaring adventure all the way
Ok so some of you might have seen all of this before....but man it's fun. I picked this up on the off chance and I wasn't disappointed. It's a story of mechs, augmentation, intrigue and really big explosions. If this was a movie it would have a gritty feel, quotable one liners and and an exploding bad guy at just the right point in the narrative. Loved it and can't wait for the next one.