Discovery Motion

by Robert Kroese

267 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 29, 2026

About the author

Robert Kroese's sense of irony was honed growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan - home of the Amway Corporation and the Gerald R. Ford Museum, and the first city in the United States to fluoridate its water supply. In second grade, he wrote his first novel, the saga of Captain Bill and his spaceship Thee Eagle. This turned out to be the high point of his academic career. After barely graduating from Calvin College in 1992 with a philosophy degree, he was fired from a variety of jobs before moving to California, where he stumbled into software development. As this job required neither punctuality nor a sense of direction, he excelled at it. In 2009, he called upon his extensive knowledge of useless information and love of explosions to write his first novel, Mercury Falls. Since then, he has written 18 more books.

Reviews

[blake · Rating 5 out of 5]

Things are heating up (even hotter) as this installment is split between current day and the prior century. The prior century story gives us a backdrop on what is going on, which is painting a picture, but (of course), just when you think you have a bead on it, Rob throws us another curve ball.

Aspects of this recall the The Dream of the Iron Dragon series, as our heroes are caught between warring factions, some of whom are quite awful, and the rest maybe slightly less awful. Maybe. Maybe some are even good on some high level which gives no comfort to those on the ground.

Anyway, splitting the story between past and present allows Rob to weave a lot of action and mystery in: Another fun & quick read! On to book 4!

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

I always get hooked. AI's, what could go wrong? Another one please.