Lieutenant Marcola

AGU: Border Patrol #4

by Thomas DePrima

Sydnee Marcola hasn't enjoyed the meteoric climb through the ranks that her idol, Admiral Jenetta Carver, has experienced, but nonetheless her career has been distinguished. Appointed to command a clandestine intelligence mission into the Clidepp Empire aboard what essentially amounts to a space tugboat, Sydnee and her team successfully kidnapped the government official believed to be responsible for the deliberate murder of thousands of children and adults attending a tradeshow being conducted aboard a space station orbiting Earth. Unfortunately, it was later discovered that the minister had been framed and was in no way responsible for the deadly attack. Since then, Sydnee and her command have been attempting to clandestinely return the minister to his home planet of Yolongus.

Once again the Justice will enter Clidepp space in an effort to surreptitiously return the minister to his home planet. Sydnee hopes this mission will mark an end to her covert missions outside of Galactic Alliance space.

Genres: Science Fiction

382 pages, ebook

First published August 1, 2019

Reviews

[Chuck Emmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Tony Hisgett · Rating 2 out of 5]

Like all the books in the Galaxy Unknown series, there are moments when if you look too closely at the story it begins to fall apart, however the books are usually fun to read. Unfortunately after a good start I found it became a bit tedious and even annoying at times.
There was some action with the appearance of Denubbewa Motherships, but even this got a bit repetitive.

One of the things about the story that really irritate was having a crew on continuous active duty with no leave for over eight years. No sane organisation would sanction this!

It wasn’t a bad book, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as I hoped. If possible I would have given 2.5 stars.