Pete, Popeye and Olive
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Publisher Description
Pete Hoffen has spent the last year in the rainforest of the Amazon, slogging through hell and back in service to his country. When an opportunity to join the Mechanized Infantry presents itself, Pete is first in line. He knows that he's going to get shot at one way or another, but the idea of sitting in a warm and more importantly, dry mechanized suit appeals to him almost beyond reason.
While still training in the jungle, Pete's squad is called out to intervene in a skirmish in a nearby village. Of course, the Marines haven't seen fit to certify his squad with ordnance. The fact that they'll be up against a platoon of squishies doesn't convince him that's it's any better of an idea and things turn quickly to crap when they discover the squishies are protected by grav-tanks.
Pete, Popeye and Olive is a fast paced, short-story with plenty of action.
Customer Reviews
Great backstory for the Privateer Tales series, and a great standalone military sci fi
One of my favorite books is Heinlein's Starship Troopers but for some reason nobody's been able to do a good "mobile infantry" story. Until now. Pete, Popeye and Olive have a great take on mobile infantry armor suits - which the characters refer to as "Popeyes" - and suiting up then of course being referred to as taking one's spinach. Ouch. The Popeye combat suits work at least as well in this book as Heinlein's MI suit does in his book. All in the context of a really well plotted and written military adventure story that also tells how Privateer Tales star Liam's parent met. All in pretty shirt story. Incredible that it all adds up and works so well.