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Rogue Outlaws: A Military Thriller
Humanitarians Gone Bad… After threatening both the Turkish and American fleets, the naval mercenaries set course for Yemen in hopes of righting countless wrongs. What they get instead is resistance from five power-hungry nation-states. When the mercenaries reopen the lifeline of humanitarian aid to ravaged lands, the Emirates, Saudis, Iranians, Houthi rebels, and Separatists retaliate in force. Fighting a multi-front war, the mercenaries learn to fight dirty. With enemies countering their every move, they must again use ugly tactics to survive. Can they save themselves–and thousands of lives–or will they die trying? Read this two-book mission (Rogue Neptune, Rogue Outlaws) to find out...
232 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 19, 2021
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August 6, 2021
Yemen is not the only battlefield in this one.
The release of Rogue Neptune (Rogue Submarine #14) and Rogue Outlaws (Rogue Submarine #15) was a welcome event. There was one centering event/story, and two narratives provided by the submarines and crews of Pierre Renard’s mercenary submarine fleet being assigned separate and mutually-supportive roles.
Danielle Sutton comes into her own as a submarine commander of Pierre Renard’s fleet of mercenary subs. And like the rest of the undersea warriors, she discovers that the most crucial battle is not about going into battle and surviving, but has to do with personal faith, moral character, and finding ways of understanding that victories in the temporal world are of little or no value unless men and women come to terms with their place in the spiritual/religious world.
A lot of readers have panned both Rogue Neptune and Rogue Outlaws. Very few posted reviews, and there are a lot of low “star” ratings with no explanations. The readers were frustrated by the lack of action (though is lots of action). And they were disinterested in the wordage that John R. Monteith invested in the spiritual conflicts of the main characters, which is the culmination of a process that started at the beginning of the series, but here, Monteith takes his own personal religious faith and translates it as it impacts his characters as they struggle with the same things he did… and still does.
There is an old saying, that “there are no atheists in foxholes”. Human experiences during combat bring out aspects of human belief and faith that might have remained untouched in a more peaceful environment. But Monteith knows that there are no atheists in submarine warfare. (Agnostics, maybe. Or not.) And if you read this book to its conclusion, you are going to find yourself “living” not just inside the physical bodies of men and women who are struggling to remain alive, but also inside the spiritual worlds of each of those characters.
And some readers will be angry. Some will be annoyed, and some will be disappointed. Monteith is not going to be wounded by those reactions. These two books must have been really hard for him to write, and they are obviously deeply personal to him. But I appreciate and respect where he is coming from. Rogue Outlaws was worth the price of the book, and the time spent reading it.
The release of Rogue Neptune (Rogue Submarine #14) and Rogue Outlaws (Rogue Submarine #15) was a welcome event. There was one centering event/story, and two narratives provided by the submarines and crews of Pierre Renard’s mercenary submarine fleet being assigned separate and mutually-supportive roles.
Danielle Sutton comes into her own as a submarine commander of Pierre Renard’s fleet of mercenary subs. And like the rest of the undersea warriors, she discovers that the most crucial battle is not about going into battle and surviving, but has to do with personal faith, moral character, and finding ways of understanding that victories in the temporal world are of little or no value unless men and women come to terms with their place in the spiritual/religious world.
A lot of readers have panned both Rogue Neptune and Rogue Outlaws. Very few posted reviews, and there are a lot of low “star” ratings with no explanations. The readers were frustrated by the lack of action (though is lots of action). And they were disinterested in the wordage that John R. Monteith invested in the spiritual conflicts of the main characters, which is the culmination of a process that started at the beginning of the series, but here, Monteith takes his own personal religious faith and translates it as it impacts his characters as they struggle with the same things he did… and still does.
There is an old saying, that “there are no atheists in foxholes”. Human experiences during combat bring out aspects of human belief and faith that might have remained untouched in a more peaceful environment. But Monteith knows that there are no atheists in submarine warfare. (Agnostics, maybe. Or not.) And if you read this book to its conclusion, you are going to find yourself “living” not just inside the physical bodies of men and women who are struggling to remain alive, but also inside the spiritual worlds of each of those characters.
And some readers will be angry. Some will be annoyed, and some will be disappointed. Monteith is not going to be wounded by those reactions. These two books must have been really hard for him to write, and they are obviously deeply personal to him. But I appreciate and respect where he is coming from. Rogue Outlaws was worth the price of the book, and the time spent reading it.
August 22, 2021
The author ruined a military thriller with his religious clap trap!
March 6, 2021
A military/religious thriller would be more accurate, there were literally chapters devoted to religious dogma in this book. There were moments where the main characters would doubt their mission objectives due to biblical reasoning, it was like reading two books in one, a military thriller that I paid for, & a religious treatise that I most certainly did not. I see the future books having the submarines firing torpedoes that release bubbles & flowers that do absolutely no damage at all to the enemy. I see the main characters joining seminaries/monasteries at the end of this book. A word to the Author, tone it down please! I also have naval experience, I did 20 years in the US Navy & know that giving your characters this much doubt in their missions because of religious beliefs that increase with every book you write would not fly in the real world.
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