Equipment

The Hussar Cycle #1

by Hesse Caplinger

In 2005, Charles Foster is suffering setbacks both personal and professional: he’s been pulled from jet-setting overseas duties and stuffed behind a lectern in a rust belt river-city town—where his wife and child have left him to return to the alabaster and cordials of Washington, DC. When he receives a pet assignment and an inevitable personal challenge, he discovers he may make the worst of them both.

Edmund LeFrance is a habitual gambler and itinerant hit man whose employer accepts a job from a CIA agent—it’s a simple fix that could have long-term implications.

Hoyt Gamlin is retired SAS from working-class Britain. A missing compatriot draws him from sunny Los Angeles into the search—and his characteristic aggression.

And Marek Hussar is a recent arrival—seemingly a businessman with little furniture and a wealth of kit—an eccentric and enigmatic foreign national whose motions and motivations interleave and unfold beside Foster, LeFrance, and Gamlin, as they each move to discover, subvert, and survive the intentions of the other.

249 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 25, 2019

Reviews

[Stuart Gordon · Rating 1 out of 5]

The writer's style is difficult to navigate, with multiple male characters, initially unidentified at each appearance, and dialogue which is too precocious by half and often indecipherable.

The plot consists of a Kill Bill array of murders.

Not worth the time or the cost. Life is too short, although not as short as the lives of the characters in this hodgepodge of a concoction.

[John F · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read from a newly published author!

Really enjoyed the rich visions the words evoked. All the characters come alive in a way I don’t recall having seen. Excited for the 2nd book in the cycle.