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Shift Tense #1
Shift Tense - Red Flags
What's the first rule of a gunfight? Bring a bigger gun.
Hired to end a vicious civil war, Eshu International's job is simple: infiltrate the rebel SPLM army, kill the radical commander, Professor Harun Abdul Hamid, then get back to Belfast to enjoy the payday.
But nothing is ever that easy. New enemies stalk the battlefield while old ones seek revenge. Tam, Jace, Poet9 and the Triplets face Somali pirates, child soldiers, rival mercenaries, killer drones... and it's just the beginning.
Shift Tense - Red Flags. Part One of the next action-packed Eshu International thriller.
Hired to end a vicious civil war, Eshu International's job is simple: infiltrate the rebel SPLM army, kill the radical commander, Professor Harun Abdul Hamid, then get back to Belfast to enjoy the payday.
But nothing is ever that easy. New enemies stalk the battlefield while old ones seek revenge. Tam, Jace, Poet9 and the Triplets face Somali pirates, child soldiers, rival mercenaries, killer drones... and it's just the beginning.
Shift Tense - Red Flags. Part One of the next action-packed Eshu International thriller.
- GenresScience Fiction
110 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 1, 2013
1 person is currently reading
21 people want to read
About the author
Patrick Todoroff
37 books49 followersMy interest in books started when I was nine, the year my baby brother shoved a pretzel down into the back of the television set and my parents didn't get it fixed.
My first novel, "Running Black" was a 'put up or shut up' project during the 2008 recession. The sequel "Shift Tense" rolled out two years later.
Other titles include the cyberpunk/technoir novella, 'Soul Cache'; a Celtic-flavored ghost story, 'The Barrow Lover'; three tales from the Exclusion Zone - 'A Prayer to Saint Strelok', 'Strange Treasure', and 'Gopnik Blues', and a handful of stand-alone near-future shorts.
As a table top war game designer, I've written 'Zona Alfa' and 'When Nightmares Come' for Osprey Wargames, several best selling indie games: 'Exploit Zero', its monster-hunting fantasy cousin, 'Nightwatch', and the alien-invasion 'Insurgent Earth.'
Current projects include the post-apocalyptic fantasy 'Shattered Worlds' duology, and a gritty dungeon crawl series, 'Shiver and Funk."
I can be found online at Stalker7.com.
A thousand thanks.
My first novel, "Running Black" was a 'put up or shut up' project during the 2008 recession. The sequel "Shift Tense" rolled out two years later.
Other titles include the cyberpunk/technoir novella, 'Soul Cache'; a Celtic-flavored ghost story, 'The Barrow Lover'; three tales from the Exclusion Zone - 'A Prayer to Saint Strelok', 'Strange Treasure', and 'Gopnik Blues', and a handful of stand-alone near-future shorts.
As a table top war game designer, I've written 'Zona Alfa' and 'When Nightmares Come' for Osprey Wargames, several best selling indie games: 'Exploit Zero', its monster-hunting fantasy cousin, 'Nightwatch', and the alien-invasion 'Insurgent Earth.'
Current projects include the post-apocalyptic fantasy 'Shattered Worlds' duology, and a gritty dungeon crawl series, 'Shiver and Funk."
I can be found online at Stalker7.com.
A thousand thanks.
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January 8, 2014
Warning: as with most of my reviews, I am going to save you the trouble and assume you've read the plot summary elsewhere (on the Amazon shop page or in other reviews).
I had picked up Running Black (the first book of this series) a couple years ago when I first got a Kindle. After reading this one (Shift Tense) I was initially disappointed. I had waited 2 years for it, and here it was then there it went. However, even though it was short, it is only a part of the full sequel to Running Black and does a good job in adding to the characters/world, without confusing the readers who hadn't read Running Black. There are definitely references to it that one who hadn't read it would completely miss, but it doesn't prevent it from being a complete novel in and of itself.
The story JUST started to get good, or so it seemed, as the book ended. Todoroff won me over with his super-fast, don't-care-if-I-leave-you-in-the-dirt pacing in Running Black. But that pacing seems to be toned down this time, so this was the main reason I was disappointed at first (as it was so short). Still, this instalment makes me excited to see where this series is going to go next. I am looking forward to being able to read the next couple of instalments of Shift Tense.
I had picked up Running Black (the first book of this series) a couple years ago when I first got a Kindle. After reading this one (Shift Tense) I was initially disappointed. I had waited 2 years for it, and here it was then there it went. However, even though it was short, it is only a part of the full sequel to Running Black and does a good job in adding to the characters/world, without confusing the readers who hadn't read Running Black. There are definitely references to it that one who hadn't read it would completely miss, but it doesn't prevent it from being a complete novel in and of itself.
The story JUST started to get good, or so it seemed, as the book ended. Todoroff won me over with his super-fast, don't-care-if-I-leave-you-in-the-dirt pacing in Running Black. But that pacing seems to be toned down this time, so this was the main reason I was disappointed at first (as it was so short). Still, this instalment makes me excited to see where this series is going to go next. I am looking forward to being able to read the next couple of instalments of Shift Tense.
September 5, 2013
It'll be four stars when we get the whole book. Great start!
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