The Between

Earth Exiles #3

by Mark Harritt

Hunted through the mountains, Mike and the team are faced with an unrelenting enemy. In a bid to save the innocents, Mike and his team might have to sacrifice everything, including any chance they might have of making it home. With a growing threat, they face betrayal within and without, and old enemies may become unwilling and unwitting allies.

227 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 31, 2015

About the author

Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Reviews

[david thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very well written book.the storyline is great.

Great reading.
There is enough adventure and battles to keep your interest all they the book. The hero's are believeable

[Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loving this series. If you like novels about military operations and/or sci-fi give this series a try.

[Beau · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this series over the weekend - Distant Shores, Eden's Children, and The Between. I really liked it. The bad guys are bad, the good guys are good, and the McGuffin is plausible. A 5-man Spec Ops team is sent to a DARPA location in Wyoming, the North Koreans nuke Beijing, everyone nukes everyone, and the team finds themselves in a fight with dragons. From there, it gets really interesting. As they struggle to survive in a hostile place, they wonder what kind of a future they have, and whether they can ever get home again.

I'd recommend it to anyone who likes military sci-fi. Beyond that, I will hide the rest of my comments because they might spoil the story for people who haven't read it yet. But I found myself physically anxious for the team, caught up in their conflicts and hoping for the best. I can't wait to read the next book.


They find themselves working on mechs - 15-foot-tall mechanical weapon systems. They come with lasers and rail guns. They find themselves a billion years in the future, with the planet peopled by alien descendants of humans, dragons, killer robots, amid a great game of interstellar intrigue.

Separated from their families and loved ones by that much time, the spec ops team, security team, and engineers of the mech project try to carve a new life. They make friends with natives. They fight the alien / human slavers. They prepare for a guerrilla war with the aliens. The series to this point ends with another cliff-hanger at some misty northern place, almost to modern Canada (I guess).

I'm hoping that they got some good information from the slaver's servers, some good weapons from the towers, and a few cargo airships. One knows that their knowledge of ancient culture is very valuable in the wider galaxy, and I can imagine that if they make it long enough, they can trade some of their internet snapshot for security.

Okay, I'd like to pick a nit. The Mechs have powerful lasers. But when the dragons "stack" tree trunks against the wall, they don't use them like a big honking chain saw to cut the logs down so they won't be as much of a threat. I have the idea that these are more like lasik lasers than nasty weapons - they don't seem any more effective than the shields in Star Trek.

[Su Tipple]

I can’t say enough good things about this book. And although I thought the series was going to stop at three books, the author is already working on book 4—welcome news for fans. As the series progresses it is increasingly critical to have read the previous books before starting a new one; that is about the only criticism I can come up with. Since Harritt gave us so much background on the “grey men” in book 2, this is not repeated in book 3 although we do spend a considerably larger amount of time among them seeing the story from their point of view. The characters among that group are every bit as engaging as the original team and Matki’s tribe members, if (in my opinion) somewhat less likable. A f ew more questions get answered here, but more are raised, especially regarding the major portion of the team that’s been left behind at their headquarters. Some alarming things have been going on “back at the ranch,” and by the end of the book there is a new challenge all of the “time-traveling” crew will face, as well as new potential partnerships that may be forming. I look forward to the next book very much.

[Victor Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Humans, Aliens, Time travel, Dragons, heavy weapons and cultural anthropology!

I picked up this series about 2 weeks ago. The first book started off like any military sci-fi book. The characters were bold and quirky. They Corp group traveled to Colorado. At that point Mark Harritt changed the ok military sci-fi book to an AWESOME plot twisting, action packed, who done it, who or what is the bad guy. The Colorado crew and the Main group really developed into unique people and they all had wonderful insight as to the setting they groups landed in. Excellent job in character development and plot twists. I recommend this series highly. The only negative is that I have to wait for the next book. Mark Harritt stop driving and keep writing!

[Dan Kestel]

Nice to see how and why Mike wants to protect those he thinks are under his protection. Also good to have him grounded with good friends.

Really like how there is some checks and balances in the few "humans" that are left. Especially when they "check" Mike's priorities.

Can't wait for 4, 5, 6........

[Betty Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent military sci-fi

This is a really good series. I like all of the characters... they're very well defined and seem like actual people you might know. The story is very well plotted , has many twists and turns, and keeps you guessing as to what's going to happen next . I recommend this to anyone that likes a good solid science-fiction story .

[Donna G Bruns · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent keeps you on your toes.can't stop reading I would recommend this book to anyone

this series is an excellent read.I would recommend this book to everyone.can't wait for the next one to come out

[paul mcclain · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read!

This is the their book in this series and it did not disappoint. Fast paced good character development. Look forward to more.

[kevin stone · Rating 5 out of 5]

Harritt is awesome! The only bad thing about this book was getting to the end of it. I recommend Harritt to readers who love military adventure with a sci-fi "anything can happen" twist. You won't be disappointed.