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Childers Universe #6
Campbell : The Sigurdsen Incident
IS SOMEONE TRYING TO KILL MARY RAO?
Captain Mary Rao, Jablonka's planetary tactical officer, seems to be under the gun from all angles, but neither the Sigurdsen Base military police nor the counter-intelligence investigations personnel believes that it's anything more than a confluence of accidents.
Lieutenant William Campbell of the CSF Intelligence Division believes differently. What he doesn't know is who or why.
And if he can't figure it out soon, he could die with her.
Captain Mary Rao, Jablonka's planetary tactical officer, seems to be under the gun from all angles, but neither the Sigurdsen Base military police nor the counter-intelligence investigations personnel believes that it's anything more than a confluence of accidents.
Lieutenant William Campbell of the CSF Intelligence Division believes differently. What he doesn't know is who or why.
And if he can't figure it out soon, he could die with her.
- GenresScience Fiction
240 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 5, 2019
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October 6, 2019
Great universe. I hope for more Campbell stories in the future. He is such an intriguing character.
I hope for more Campbell stories. Mysteries, spies, cops and robbers. Such fun. This backstory to the origin of COP Samples and how Mary Rao met Bill Campbell was as good a read as the other Childers novels.
I hope for more Campbell stories. Mysteries, spies, cops and robbers. Such fun. This backstory to the origin of COP Samples and how Mary Rao met Bill Campbell was as good a read as the other Childers novels.
October 13, 2020
Good!
Classic Bill, story done well. Action, characters, plot done well. Don't know what else to say, plan to read more of her stuff
Classic Bill, story done well. Action, characters, plot done well. Don't know what else to say, plan to read more of her stuff
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February 7, 2022A fitting backstory
When Bill meets Jan. An enjoyable book in the series. A more intimate level of storytelling that fits in well with the whole series.
When Bill meets Jan. An enjoyable book in the series. A more intimate level of storytelling that fits in well with the whole series.
December 2, 2025
Good spy story
Spies and counterspies, but not between countries; between planets. Very clean language, also very humorless. Still ok for a weekend.
Spies and counterspies, but not between countries; between planets. Very clean language, also very humorless. Still ok for a weekend.
September 2, 2022
Having read all the previous books in this series, I jumped right into this. I didn't even realize until I was nearly finished that this was written by another author. True, there seemed to be a few inconsistencies in language and dialog, but I didn't think much of it at the time because I was so absorbed by the story itself. Excellent work, and a great contribution to the story!
People complaining about those inconsistencies - how about you stop worrying about what color the ice cream truck is, and just enjoy some ice cream? :-)
People complaining about those inconsistencies - how about you stop worrying about what color the ice cream truck is, and just enjoy some ice cream? :-)
November 29, 2019
Switcheroo
Well it's a different author which explains the lack of all that boring detail that Mr. Weyand likes to pad his stories with. That's a good thing. On the other hand the dialogue is even more strained and unbelievable than Mr. Weyand's. The attempt to act like an item with Rao would have blown his cover almost immediately. The interesting thing about this story is that it remained true to the universe. Various loose ends were pulled in and tied off. Really, though this is book 6 in the universe, it should be read before 5 because that is where it fits in the chronology. Campbell is off on his first investigation as discussed in volume 5 involving Rao and introducing us to Samples. Campbell infiltrates investigates and discovers a vicious spy ring out to poison off various key administrators for the purpose of replacing them with suitable substitutes. He finds the surprise ringleader, and at great danger to himself eliminates the ring.
Well it's a different author which explains the lack of all that boring detail that Mr. Weyand likes to pad his stories with. That's a good thing. On the other hand the dialogue is even more strained and unbelievable than Mr. Weyand's. The attempt to act like an item with Rao would have blown his cover almost immediately. The interesting thing about this story is that it remained true to the universe. Various loose ends were pulled in and tied off. Really, though this is book 6 in the universe, it should be read before 5 because that is where it fits in the chronology. Campbell is off on his first investigation as discussed in volume 5 involving Rao and introducing us to Samples. Campbell infiltrates investigates and discovers a vicious spy ring out to poison off various key administrators for the purpose of replacing them with suitable substitutes. He finds the surprise ringleader, and at great danger to himself eliminates the ring.
August 13, 2019
I'm rounding up about half a star.
I enjoyed this story, set in the Childers Universe but not by series author Richard Weyand. After several books involving Bill Campbell, it was satisfying to find out more about his training and early exploits. Anyone interested in intelligence activities, in general or as they might be carried out in the future, will find interesting details.
One format issue that annoyed me a bit: the author puts Campbell's thoughts in single quotation marks (') rather than simply including them or, alternatively, italicizing them. I've never seen that before and don't regard it as conventional or correct. It's the more confusing because such quotation marks are standard UK usage for spoken dialogue.
I enjoyed this story, set in the Childers Universe but not by series author Richard Weyand. After several books involving Bill Campbell, it was satisfying to find out more about his training and early exploits. Anyone interested in intelligence activities, in general or as they might be carried out in the future, will find interesting details.
One format issue that annoyed me a bit: the author puts Campbell's thoughts in single quotation marks (') rather than simply including them or, alternatively, italicizing them. I've never seen that before and don't regard it as conventional or correct. It's the more confusing because such quotation marks are standard UK usage for spoken dialogue.
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