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Tall Boys #4
Lost Colony
Making planetfall without getting shot at was tight.
It was the main reason mechanized combat rig operators retired. When Admiral Boal Markson IV gives Jam a secret mission to protect his daughter on Coaster, he knows retirement will be fraught with peril.
He won’t be alone. A collection of salvagers, MCR crews, and Alaran cyborgs join him at the last minute, complicating an otherwise delightful ride into the sunset on a colony everyone in the Capian Alliance of Terran Systems had forgotten.
Until now.
When a new dig uncovers more than exotic minerals, there is a rush of adventurers, corporate mercenaries, and secret governmental organizations grabbing all the loot they can. Long before CATS discovered the ice-bound world of Coaster, aliens crashed a starship full of mysteries.
Nothing could possibly go wrong with that kind of technology trapped in the ice.
Right?
Fans of the previous Tall Boys books, The Last Reaper, Homeworld Lost, and Star Blade will cheer for Jam and his friends to get it right when everything goes wrong.
It was the main reason mechanized combat rig operators retired. When Admiral Boal Markson IV gives Jam a secret mission to protect his daughter on Coaster, he knows retirement will be fraught with peril.
He won’t be alone. A collection of salvagers, MCR crews, and Alaran cyborgs join him at the last minute, complicating an otherwise delightful ride into the sunset on a colony everyone in the Capian Alliance of Terran Systems had forgotten.
Until now.
When a new dig uncovers more than exotic minerals, there is a rush of adventurers, corporate mercenaries, and secret governmental organizations grabbing all the loot they can. Long before CATS discovered the ice-bound world of Coaster, aliens crashed a starship full of mysteries.
Nothing could possibly go wrong with that kind of technology trapped in the ice.
Right?
Fans of the previous Tall Boys books, The Last Reaper, Homeworld Lost, and Star Blade will cheer for Jam and his friends to get it right when everything goes wrong.
288 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 27, 2025
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About the author
Scott Moon
153 books215 followersScott Moon loves audio books, especially the works of George R.R. Martin, Patrick O'Brian, and Michael Connelly. He has been writing fantasy, science fiction, and urban fantasy thrillers most of his life and aims to read or listen to 100 books a year. Currently, he is a commissioned police officer serving in a street level counter drug and gang unit. Some of his most rewarding and heartbreaking work was as a detective in the Exploited Missing Child Unit. His favorite assignment is SWAT, primarily for the eighty pounds of tactical gear he gets to wear in the blazing summer heat. In 2005, he helped arrest a serial killer who had been at large for over thirty years.
Follow Scott Moon on Twitter @Scottmoonwriter or visit www.scottmoonwriter.com to view his author page.
Follow Scott Moon on Twitter @Scottmoonwriter or visit www.scottmoonwriter.com to view his author page.
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August 4, 2025
Love this series
This is the best series I've read. Jam and Benji putting in work like always. TP getting in in the action this time around also. I wish there were more books out. Get busy I'm ready for more action from the crew.
This is the best series I've read. Jam and Benji putting in work like always. TP getting in in the action this time around also. I wish there were more books out. Get busy I'm ready for more action from the crew.
December 16, 2025
I mean it's an entertaining read but always amuses me how Scott can move from one thing to the next without giving second thoughts or never revisiting past events. Kinda funny to go from a 3 race interstellar war to a barren colonized world and back to funny aliens older than space.
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