Indomitable
The Chronicles of Promise Paen, Book 2
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Publisher Description
Indomitable: the second in W. C. Bauers's Chronciles of Promise Paen, character-driven military science fiction featuring a female space marine.
Promise Paen, captain of Victor Company's mechanized armored infantry, is back for another adventure protecting the Republic of Aligned Worlds.
Lieutenant Paen barely survived her last encounter with the Lusitanian Empire. She's returned home to heal. But the nightmares won't stop. And she's got a newly reconstituted unit of green marines to whip into shape before they deploy. If the enemies of the RAW don't kill them first, she just might do the job herself.
Light-years away, on the edge of the Verge, a massive vein of rare ore is discovered on the mining planet of Sheol, which ignites an arms race and a proxy war between the Republic and the Lusitanians. Paen and Victor Company are ordered to Sheol, to reinforce the planet and hold it at all costs.
On the eve of their deployment, a friendly fire incident occurs, putting Paen's career in jeopardy and stripping her of her command. When the Lusitanians send mercenaries to raid Sheol and destabilize its mining operations, matters reach crisis levels. Disgraced and angry, Promise is offered one shot to get back into her mechsuit. But she'll have to jump across the galaxy and possibly storm the gates of hell itself.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The second in Bauers's Chronicles of Promise Paen (after 2015's Unbreakable), set some 800 years from now in the far-flung Republic of Aligned Worlds, is packed to the gills with visceral action scenes and military jargon. Following a battlefield promotion and a disastrous mission that left most of her previous team dead, the newly minted First Lieutenant Promise Paen is tasked to whip Victor Company and its new batch of untested marines into shape. However, Promise, with her reputation for impulsive behavior and daredevil antics, has to overcome the reservations of her commanders and the public. Whether defying the odds during an impossible training exercise or stumbling across a sex-trafficking operation while on vacation, Promise refuses to play by the rules or conform to expectations, which threatens to derail her career. But when Victor Company is deployed to the hellish mining planet of Sheol to confront belligerents, Promise is tested like never before. The attention to detail and atmosphere brings the combat to life, though the plot itself is meandering and unfocused. The through line of Promise's checkered career takes a few detours, giving this book a rushed, episodic feel as it leads into the next stage of her exploits.
