Assault on Cambriol

by Jerry Borrowman

Earth’s descendants have scattered across the galaxy . . .Little unites them apart from their shared roots on ancient Earth.But one young starship captain, and some cadets, must save them all.Pietr Jesik worked hard to go from a nobody, to a starship captain. Now, Pietr finds himself in a sticky situation when a small space fleet makes a bombing run on the sulfur pools of Cambriol.Controversy erupts within the Quadrant Council. This bombing is the catalyst for a military and political battle that stretches galaxies.It is up to Captain Jesik and his crew to ease the growing tensions. New friendships are forged while the stalwart crew works to unite all of Earth's descendants across the galaxy to stop an all-out war. Will the captain and his team succeed, or will the entire galaxy implode into mayhem?Best-selling author Jerry Borrowman masterfully treads the high wire between friendships and frayed emotions, and blood and bureaucracy. Escape into this story of war, politics, and science fiction adventure. Fans of Battlestar Gallactica, Star Trek, and Star Wars are sure to love Assault on Cambriol. Get your copy today!

Genres: Science Fiction

312 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 9, 2014

About the author

Jerry Borrowman is an award-winning author of 23 commercially published books including military fiction, non-fiction, and co-authored biography. Jerry is a two-time recipient of the prestigious George Washington National Medal from the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge "for his contribution to the cause of freedom through his writing." Compassionate Soldier was the 2019 Gold Award Winner from Foreword Reviews in the War and Military category, and Invisible Heroes of World War II and Why We Fought were Silver Winners.

Jerry is known for his meticulous attention to historical detail, including the technology that is unique to each story.

Reviews

[Cajjha]

Rises far above my expectations for the genre

Military/political science fiction is a field nourished by the likes of Heinlein, Haldeman and Asimov. An author must tread a high-wire between blood and bureaucracy, expediency and emotion, beating the war drum not too boldly while retaining the human face of politics in a moving narrative. This book is as enjoyable as it is impressive. This is not a fine genre book, rather it is a fine book that happens to be of a particular genre.

[Melvin Patterson]

Decent space opera with a political flare

Pretty good read. Could really use some editing and proofreading but once past that, its a very entertaining story with a solid plot and likeable characters. It lacks a central villain and focuses on terrorist groups and "rebels." Although there are antagonists none seem to be fully developed characters themselves and the story is plot focused.

[Sgt Maj]

Political Science 101

Should be re-tagged as political science fiction. The military aspects just served as a vehicle to assist expressing politically correct views.

The military technology and 'battles', what little there was done, wasn't done very well. Author gave us lasers n missiles with lasers having little impact in ship to ship. OK, how about throwing in rail guns or something? Gosh, anything to give us military types something to knaw on. The closet homosexual hero?

Bottom line to me is that overall the book and story was very boring, tedious and author was very repetitive regarding politics. I'm not sure why 2 stars but author went thru a lot to write this.

[Dan]

I picked up this book from a friend who asked me to honestly review it. Well there was not anything in the beginning of this book that caught my attention and made me want to read on. The characters were stereotypical and I found myself not caring that they all might die in the first few chapters. And the whole dazzle beam thing really through me off.

That being said I understand that this author is very talented at writing historical fiction. Perhaps this was a trail run into sci-fi. It did not go well for me.

[Evgeny]

The book seemed interesting, although jumpy. The shuttle trials part was boring and not much useful in this book. Probably it was intended for the next book in the series.

[John Maynard]

Loved it!

I liked this book a lot. It had action and intrigue. The writer brought warmth and civility to this genre. I will read more of his books.

[Kathie Zingler]

Wow

Great book. Action, adventure, handsome heroes who won out, tragedy as well as a happy ending. I cried as well as laughed.