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Clean Sweeps
In Clean Sweeps, New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry goes offworld to spin a yarn of space pirates, Special Forces, and the ruthless press in a story about heroism, betrayal and ratings!
18 pages, ebook
First published November 19, 2011
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Jonathan Maberry
522 books7,800 followersJONATHAN MABERRY is a NYTimes bestselling author, #1 Audible bestseller, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, 4-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, comic book writer, and producer. He is the author of more than 50 novels, 190 short stories, 16 short story collections, 30 graphic novels, 14 nonfiction books, and has edited 26 anthologies. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, was a Netflix original series starring Ian Somerhalder. His 2009-10 run as writer on the Black Panther comic formed a large chunk of the recent blockbuster film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. His bestselling YA zombie series, Rot & Ruin is in development for film at Alcon Entertainment; and John Wick director, Chad Stahelski, is developing Jonathan’s Joe Ledger Thrillers for TV. Jonathan writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and action; and he writes for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include The Pine Deep Trilogy, The Kagen the Damned Trilogy, NecroTek, Ink, Glimpse, the Rot & Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, The Sleepers War (with Weston Ochse), Mars One, and many others. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, Don’t Turn out the Lights: A Tribute to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, Shadows & Verse, and others. His comics include Marvel Zombies Return, The Punisher: Naked Kills, Wolverine: Ghosts, Godzilla vs Cthulhu: Death May Die, Bad Blood and many others. Jonathan has written in many popular licensed worlds, including Hellboy, True Blood, The Wolfman, John Carter of Mars, Sherlock Holmes, C.H.U.D., Diablo IV, Deadlands, World of Warcraft, Planet of the Apes, Aliens, Predator, Karl Kolchak, and many others. He the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, and the editor of Weird Tales Magazine. He lives in San Diego, California. Find him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com
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December 10, 2021
This is a good story about the potential misuse of the military.
Regarding modesty, vulgar language is used.
I might read this story again. It was quite exciting.
Regarding modesty, vulgar language is used.
I might read this story again. It was quite exciting.
December 20, 2013
Out of the bleakness of boredom, I remembered all of the short stories Jonathan Maberry had written, which I had purchased for my Nook. I had also remembered this one being insanely short, yet shocking, but I simply couldn't remember why, exactly. A quick reading proved to me how much more intellectual Jonathan Maberry really is with his excellent stories.
In "Clean Sweeps", we have an unnamed protagonist, whom is part of a futuristic squadron, called Jigsaw. When they receive a tip from the media about gunrunners in the Tower, Jigsaw Squad and its brother company must investigate.
This little, eventful tale has quite an effective theme, but I just didn't get too deep into the story itself. I used to be a major fan of Maberry, but I fell out of reading for a while. Returning now, I must say that I did not enjoy "Clean Sweeps" as much as I originally did. It is—simply put—nearly twenty pages of shoot-'em-up with some cool factor, but not enough character development to really entrance yourself. Another issue I kept running across were typos, and that is more bothersome than I could ever begin to explain. Don't get me wrong; I love the impact of the message Maberry delivers here, but I do feel that it could have been done much, much better by him. I don't know about other readers, but I also felt that some of the military squadron equipment wasn't explained in enough depth to savor it, or even imagine it.
As I have stated before: characters weren't developed at all, and I can understand that, for the most part. It definitely helps with the message, in a way, by having the REAL villain at the conclusion of the story remain vague until the major plot twist. I just get a little annoyed with how hateful our protagonist is in the story.
In all honesty, I would love to see Jonathan Maberry create a science-fiction series of novels, but this was definitely a great place to start. I have faith in the guy.
"Clean Sweeps" earns a three-out-of-five stars from me. It is enjoyable, intelligent even, but it seemed a bit rushed, in my opinion.
Merry Christmas, and God bless!
In "Clean Sweeps", we have an unnamed protagonist, whom is part of a futuristic squadron, called Jigsaw. When they receive a tip from the media about gunrunners in the Tower, Jigsaw Squad and its brother company must investigate.
This little, eventful tale has quite an effective theme, but I just didn't get too deep into the story itself. I used to be a major fan of Maberry, but I fell out of reading for a while. Returning now, I must say that I did not enjoy "Clean Sweeps" as much as I originally did. It is—simply put—nearly twenty pages of shoot-'em-up with some cool factor, but not enough character development to really entrance yourself. Another issue I kept running across were typos, and that is more bothersome than I could ever begin to explain. Don't get me wrong; I love the impact of the message Maberry delivers here, but I do feel that it could have been done much, much better by him. I don't know about other readers, but I also felt that some of the military squadron equipment wasn't explained in enough depth to savor it, or even imagine it.
As I have stated before: characters weren't developed at all, and I can understand that, for the most part. It definitely helps with the message, in a way, by having the REAL villain at the conclusion of the story remain vague until the major plot twist. I just get a little annoyed with how hateful our protagonist is in the story.
In all honesty, I would love to see Jonathan Maberry create a science-fiction series of novels, but this was definitely a great place to start. I have faith in the guy.
"Clean Sweeps" earns a three-out-of-five stars from me. It is enjoyable, intelligent even, but it seemed a bit rushed, in my opinion.
Merry Christmas, and God bless!
December 5, 2013
Wow... Maberry is the gruesome king of short stories! Nonstop action in this one... Check it out!
And I can't wait to use this sentence... “There isn’t one person above my pay grade who gives a hemorrhoidic rat’s ass what I like or don’t like.”
And I can't wait to use this sentence... “There isn’t one person above my pay grade who gives a hemorrhoidic rat’s ass what I like or don’t like.”
January 9, 2016
Some people call me the space cowboy...
March 20, 2016
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