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Star Scrapper #3
Rebel Intelligence
Hank and the crew have a new ally but can she be trusted?
After saving an Inquisitorial Acolyte, Hank must choose what to do next and the decision will have grave ramifications. Knowing that the Acolyte can be a great asset, Hank cautiously agrees to help her in exchange for information and connections.
To do so, he is going to need to sneak onto the capitol planet of the Consortium, and that is no easy task. Only with the aid of some underworld connections will Hank be able to achieve his goal.
Things are further complicated when the crew connect with the Peacer rebels. Hank sees potential new allies in them but understands that working together puts him even further in the crosshairs.
Can Hank's new allies be trusted or will they put him in more danger than ever?
Find out in Rebel Intelligence, the thrilling new entry in the Star Scrapper series from USA Today Bestselling Author J.N. Chaney and Matthew A. Goodwin.
After saving an Inquisitorial Acolyte, Hank must choose what to do next and the decision will have grave ramifications. Knowing that the Acolyte can be a great asset, Hank cautiously agrees to help her in exchange for information and connections.
To do so, he is going to need to sneak onto the capitol planet of the Consortium, and that is no easy task. Only with the aid of some underworld connections will Hank be able to achieve his goal.
Things are further complicated when the crew connect with the Peacer rebels. Hank sees potential new allies in them but understands that working together puts him even further in the crosshairs.
Can Hank's new allies be trusted or will they put him in more danger than ever?
Find out in Rebel Intelligence, the thrilling new entry in the Star Scrapper series from USA Today Bestselling Author J.N. Chaney and Matthew A. Goodwin.
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305 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 10, 2024
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April 11, 2024
Excellent book
Thoroughly enjoyed this installment. I liked the action and the character development. Seeing Hank progress as a leader/scrapper/hunter was fun to watch. Bunch of plot twists I didn’t see coming. Highly recommended!
Thoroughly enjoyed this installment. I liked the action and the character development. Seeing Hank progress as a leader/scrapper/hunter was fun to watch. Bunch of plot twists I didn’t see coming. Highly recommended!
July 2, 2024
Apparently being a scrapper has its benefits when it comes to sneaking around and getting the good stuff. So we have adventures here and the continuing saga of either trusting the Acolyte or not. Building trust is a tricky thing and that's what they're finding.
I could have done without all the rich people on the Acolyte's planet; seeing her drift into the edges of that life was not pretty or entertaining. So many shallow people is a tragedy any time, whether in a book or in life. And meeting up with the bad guy once again was interesting.
This is a good series. It's not at the top of my list but it is nice to have it there to fill the gaps between others like it. Neill Thorne is also good on audio.
I could have done without all the rich people on the Acolyte's planet; seeing her drift into the edges of that life was not pretty or entertaining. So many shallow people is a tragedy any time, whether in a book or in life. And meeting up with the bad guy once again was interesting.
This is a good series. It's not at the top of my list but it is nice to have it there to fill the gaps between others like it. Neill Thorne is also good on audio.
April 25, 2024
THE OLD WAR HAS BEEN OVER FOR LONGER THAN 200 YEARS OR HAS IT JUST BEEN GOING ON IN THE SHADOWS?
Rebel Intelligence (Star Scrapper Book 3) by J.N Chaney and Matthew A Goodwin is a book and series for all that truly enjoy a great science fiction, action-packed, thriller that will keep you interested throughout routing for the good guys to defeat the evil that wants to continue the war for the control of the galaxy by one faction that wants to eliminate all technical advancement and the other faction that wants to force all known species into technical medical augments to advance humanity and all known species in their evolution. This book and series is well written, the characters are clearly defined, and you'll find yourself drawn into the story from from the first page to the last wanting to continue on with each new additional book/books.
I have really enjoyed this book and series so far and hope you will too.
Rebel Intelligence (Star Scrapper Book 3) by J.N Chaney and Matthew A Goodwin is a book and series for all that truly enjoy a great science fiction, action-packed, thriller that will keep you interested throughout routing for the good guys to defeat the evil that wants to continue the war for the control of the galaxy by one faction that wants to eliminate all technical advancement and the other faction that wants to force all known species into technical medical augments to advance humanity and all known species in their evolution. This book and series is well written, the characters are clearly defined, and you'll find yourself drawn into the story from from the first page to the last wanting to continue on with each new additional book/books.
I have really enjoyed this book and series so far and hope you will too.
April 12, 2024
But!! I have to wait for the next one!!
A good continuing space opera..a few new flourishes and a rather peculiar story twist. Good visualization of what the characters saw in different scenes...
Anyway. I liked the book and am impatiently looking for the next.
A good continuing space opera..a few new flourishes and a rather peculiar story twist. Good visualization of what the characters saw in different scenes...
Anyway. I liked the book and am impatiently looking for the next.
June 24, 2024
This series keeps getting better every book. We started out with an orphan name Hank Spears. He had lost track of his best friend, another orphan name Lara Shen. Hank got adopted by a Scrapper name Lutch Spears who began teaching Hank the trade. Meanwhile, Lara later got adopted by a Bounty Hunter whom she doesn’t talk much about. Hank was out scrapping one normal day when he found a cube in amongst some scrap. He picked it up and brought it back to his ship, the Buzzard, only to find out this cube was a military-grade AI and very, very illegal to have in the Commonwealth! Anyone associating with, talking with or even have knowledge of an AI were being persecuted by the Inquisition. Usually the penalty for any form of association with an AI was death.
So, Hank unknowingly got himself listed with a Bounty on the Bounty Boards. Fortunately, one of the Bounty Hunters that went after him was Kilara Vex, a.k.a., Lara Shen. When she recognized Hank, she immediately forgot about the bounty and helped him escape back to the Buzzard and leave the space station. Now, they have joined together with Lara teaching Hank how to be a Bounty Hunter. They are doing this because the AI, named Ned, has told them there is an old weapon built during the war two-hundred years ago that could be made operational now. That weapon was Codenamed: Extinction! Ned believed it had to be found and destroyed or all of humanity would be lost.
Meanwhile, the Inquisition had found out about Hank and Ned and had assigned Inquisitor John Gregory and his Acolyte Imogen Hush to capture/kill Hank and anyone else associated with him. So, in the process of staying away from John Gregory, Hank and Lara had set out to make some money by serving bounties on various criminals. In their journeys through books one and two, we read where Hank got shot and had to go to Alex, an old friend and mob doctor. Alex patched up Hank and then asked to join his crew aboard the Buzzard. That made for a good fit as long as Alex understood that an AI was aboard the ship. Alex had no problem with this since he hadn’t been real cozy with the law for a long time. They eventually found a remote space station that had been deserted after the war. It was thought to be haunted so know one ever docked with it, but Hank and Lara needed some place to rest and recuperate. They found this derelict space station actually being ran by another AI named Libby. She welcomed them because of Ned and told them they could dock with her any time they felt like it, but they had to bring her back some kind of companion since she was very lonely.
That’s when Hank, Lara, Ned and Alex went to an abandoned space station looking for leads on the Extinction weapon. What they found was another AI of evil intent who almost wrecked Ned. They fled that station back to Libby and then had to find someone who could restore Neds coding. That person turned out to be an eccentric scientist name Edwin Stern. He fixed Ned and decided that he wanted to stay with Libby on the space station and continue his research. So Hank, Lara, Ned and Alex set off again in search of clues to finding Codename: Extinction.
Along the way, they continue to be harassed by the Inquisitor. He was a vicious man, very evil and let nothing stop him from tracking down Hank and Lara. His Acolyte Hush seemed just as evil as him and had gone out to seek Hank and Lara on her own. She managed to track them down and pretty much had the dead to right, but the Acolyte surprisingly asked Hank and Lara for help! She hated what she was doing and wanted nothing more to do with the Inquisition or especially John Gregory. She had been forced to become his Acolyte by her parents after getting into trouble on her home planet, Emortium, the capital planet of the Consortium. She said she had some political connections that could help them get someone to listen about their mission to find and destroy Codename: Extinction.
Of course she also wanted something in return other than her freedom. She wanted Hank, Lara, and Alex to rescue her only living relatives, an Aunt and Uncle, who currently resided on Emortium. Imogen was afraid that the Inquisitor John Gregory would go after them because of her recent actions. So, they had to come up with a reasonable plan to rescue these people even though Lara wasn’t all that sure about Imogen and thought she was setting up a trap. That’s what the majority of this book is about. Hank, Lara, Ned, Alex and now Imogen are about to set off on some dangerous activities that could very well get them killed. They are planning on going right into the heart of the Consortium knowing that everyone is out looking for them. I’m not sure hiding in plain sight is all that great.
Finally, they also need to find others like them to help their cause. They do know of a group called the Peacers that might be such a group. One contingent is on a deceased planet name Vache I led by a guy named Shep. If they can get there, they might be able to find some allies, but not all is as it seems, even on Vache I. It smells of death!
Nothing ends with this book. In fact, there are more dangers ahead and no one to really trust. More will be reveled in book 4, “Deadly Ghosts”, now available on Amazon.
So, Hank unknowingly got himself listed with a Bounty on the Bounty Boards. Fortunately, one of the Bounty Hunters that went after him was Kilara Vex, a.k.a., Lara Shen. When she recognized Hank, she immediately forgot about the bounty and helped him escape back to the Buzzard and leave the space station. Now, they have joined together with Lara teaching Hank how to be a Bounty Hunter. They are doing this because the AI, named Ned, has told them there is an old weapon built during the war two-hundred years ago that could be made operational now. That weapon was Codenamed: Extinction! Ned believed it had to be found and destroyed or all of humanity would be lost.
Meanwhile, the Inquisition had found out about Hank and Ned and had assigned Inquisitor John Gregory and his Acolyte Imogen Hush to capture/kill Hank and anyone else associated with him. So, in the process of staying away from John Gregory, Hank and Lara had set out to make some money by serving bounties on various criminals. In their journeys through books one and two, we read where Hank got shot and had to go to Alex, an old friend and mob doctor. Alex patched up Hank and then asked to join his crew aboard the Buzzard. That made for a good fit as long as Alex understood that an AI was aboard the ship. Alex had no problem with this since he hadn’t been real cozy with the law for a long time. They eventually found a remote space station that had been deserted after the war. It was thought to be haunted so know one ever docked with it, but Hank and Lara needed some place to rest and recuperate. They found this derelict space station actually being ran by another AI named Libby. She welcomed them because of Ned and told them they could dock with her any time they felt like it, but they had to bring her back some kind of companion since she was very lonely.
That’s when Hank, Lara, Ned and Alex went to an abandoned space station looking for leads on the Extinction weapon. What they found was another AI of evil intent who almost wrecked Ned. They fled that station back to Libby and then had to find someone who could restore Neds coding. That person turned out to be an eccentric scientist name Edwin Stern. He fixed Ned and decided that he wanted to stay with Libby on the space station and continue his research. So Hank, Lara, Ned and Alex set off again in search of clues to finding Codename: Extinction.
Along the way, they continue to be harassed by the Inquisitor. He was a vicious man, very evil and let nothing stop him from tracking down Hank and Lara. His Acolyte Hush seemed just as evil as him and had gone out to seek Hank and Lara on her own. She managed to track them down and pretty much had the dead to right, but the Acolyte surprisingly asked Hank and Lara for help! She hated what she was doing and wanted nothing more to do with the Inquisition or especially John Gregory. She had been forced to become his Acolyte by her parents after getting into trouble on her home planet, Emortium, the capital planet of the Consortium. She said she had some political connections that could help them get someone to listen about their mission to find and destroy Codename: Extinction.
Of course she also wanted something in return other than her freedom. She wanted Hank, Lara, and Alex to rescue her only living relatives, an Aunt and Uncle, who currently resided on Emortium. Imogen was afraid that the Inquisitor John Gregory would go after them because of her recent actions. So, they had to come up with a reasonable plan to rescue these people even though Lara wasn’t all that sure about Imogen and thought she was setting up a trap. That’s what the majority of this book is about. Hank, Lara, Ned, Alex and now Imogen are about to set off on some dangerous activities that could very well get them killed. They are planning on going right into the heart of the Consortium knowing that everyone is out looking for them. I’m not sure hiding in plain sight is all that great.
Finally, they also need to find others like them to help their cause. They do know of a group called the Peacers that might be such a group. One contingent is on a deceased planet name Vache I led by a guy named Shep. If they can get there, they might be able to find some allies, but not all is as it seems, even on Vache I. It smells of death!
Nothing ends with this book. In fact, there are more dangers ahead and no one to really trust. More will be reveled in book 4, “Deadly Ghosts”, now available on Amazon.
April 25, 2024
Excellent!
Thoroughly enjoyed book 3 of this series. It's really starting to pick up, and you can see that some of the twists and turns that are building are going to be epic!!
I am thoroughly excited for book 4. And I can't wait to see what the ceremonial weapon is going to be or how it's going to take shape.
Thoroughly enjoyed book 3 of this series. It's really starting to pick up, and you can see that some of the twists and turns that are building are going to be epic!!
I am thoroughly excited for book 4. And I can't wait to see what the ceremonial weapon is going to be or how it's going to take shape.
May 9, 2024
Unsettling Resolution
This is a rather violent series and I think I have reached my limit after book 3. The characters and basic story are interesting but there is just too much death and destruction along the way, and so much of it rather mindless. For those who like battles and bloodshed, it probably feels much different, but for me, I’ve had enough.
This is a rather violent series and I think I have reached my limit after book 3. The characters and basic story are interesting but there is just too much death and destruction along the way, and so much of it rather mindless. For those who like battles and bloodshed, it probably feels much different, but for me, I’ve had enough.
August 23, 2024
I am enjoying this Series and the various characters in it. This is a continuation, but now Hank needs to determine if it will be safe to include the Inquisitorial Alcolite in the crew and allow her confidential information. Narrator does a good job with the various characters voices and the entire storyline.
April 22, 2025
Riveting
Every book sheds a little more light on the atrocities that befell 200 years ago. Technology out of control. Brutality innundating every aspect of war.
People just want to be free to choose their own path. But it's getting harder to discern what that path is or where it's really going.
Every book sheds a little more light on the atrocities that befell 200 years ago. Technology out of control. Brutality innundating every aspect of war.
People just want to be free to choose their own path. But it's getting harder to discern what that path is or where it's really going.
July 13, 2024
Really liking this series
I'm amazed that this author can write so many fantastic novels, I hope that he never stops writing. His books are some of the best Entertainment I have read and worth the time to read them. Thank you for a very fun entertaining read.
I'm amazed that this author can write so many fantastic novels, I hope that he never stops writing. His books are some of the best Entertainment I have read and worth the time to read them. Thank you for a very fun entertaining read.
August 22, 2024
Too much of the same
Good story, but by book three, the author's favorite phrases and words are repetitious- annoyingly so. I'm skipping to book 6, which is a bestseller. The author does a great recap of all earlier books at the beginning of each new book.
Good story, but by book three, the author's favorite phrases and words are repetitious- annoyingly so. I'm skipping to book 6, which is a bestseller. The author does a great recap of all earlier books at the beginning of each new book.
November 24, 2024
AI and humans. Friend or enemy?
I am not a fan of AI now and I can see why the characters in this book hate it. However, some AI is needed. Wish Asimov we three laws of robotics was in effect!
I am not a fan of AI now and I can see why the characters in this book hate it. However, some AI is needed. Wish Asimov we three laws of robotics was in effect!
May 26, 2024
Nice story
I have enjoyed this continuous story of young man that found an AI that was in the great war that may not be over.
I have enjoyed this continuous story of young man that found an AI that was in the great war that may not be over.
October 28, 2024
was a great Audiobook can't wait to listen to the next book. I just don't see it going well for the MC with everything going on in the book but you never know.
November 14, 2024
it’s working
Holding my interest so far we will see after a few more reads gave it 4stars though. It is entertaining.
Holding my interest so far we will see after a few more reads gave it 4stars though. It is entertaining.
November 17, 2024
Top Notch Science Fiction!
March 26, 2025
the plot thickens
The plot thickens with twists and turns that will you wanting to read through the wee hours of the night.
The plot thickens with twists and turns that will you wanting to read through the wee hours of the night.
May 30, 2025
A good third book
This was a good third book in the series . The characters growth as people and their place in the universe is expanded. The plot line builds.
This was a good third book in the series . The characters growth as people and their place in the universe is expanded. The plot line builds.
July 17, 2025
Good storyb
September 29, 2024
Really enjoying this series
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