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Polecat Protocol #1
Discovery
Mining a tiny moon in a remote star system has its challenges. At the top of the list: If the power dies, the crew dies.
Jericho Jackson looks forward to finishing one last job: a high-risk, high-pay mining gig. A string of disasters throws the operation into life-threatening chaos as his team loses contact with their orbital support station. They will have to use all their specialized training to stay alive.
Shanna Percival, his teammate and one-time girlfriend, keeps their equipment in top shape, but her tendency to tinker and stick her nose where it doesn't belong turns up a mysterious cache of data that shouldn't exist.
Knowledge is power. Her discovery could be the ultimate key to overcoming the growing danger, but time is running out ...
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If you love a slow burn space opera with a heavy dose of hard science, you'll love the Polecat Protocol series.
Jericho Jackson looks forward to finishing one last job: a high-risk, high-pay mining gig. A string of disasters throws the operation into life-threatening chaos as his team loses contact with their orbital support station. They will have to use all their specialized training to stay alive.
Shanna Percival, his teammate and one-time girlfriend, keeps their equipment in top shape, but her tendency to tinker and stick her nose where it doesn't belong turns up a mysterious cache of data that shouldn't exist.
Knowledge is power. Her discovery could be the ultimate key to overcoming the growing danger, but time is running out ...
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If you love a slow burn space opera with a heavy dose of hard science, you'll love the Polecat Protocol series.
239 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 8, 2022
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About the author
John M. Olsen
50 books27 followersJohn M. Olsen uses writing to harness his burning desire to create, hoping to entertain and enlighten others as well as himself. A love of stories about ordinary people stepping up to extraordinary circumstances permeates his writing. He approaches writing and editing like he approaches his secret lair full of dangerous power tools (aka wood shop), hoping to create something new and interesting with each new project.
As the 2020-2021 President of the League of Utah Writers and as a speaker at several conferences and conventions, he helps other writers to identify and reach their goals to improve and succeed at their craft.
John lives in Utah with his lovely wife and a variable number of mostly grown children and a constantly changing subset of extended family.
Check out his blog and join his mailing list while you're there.
As the 2020-2021 President of the League of Utah Writers and as a speaker at several conferences and conventions, he helps other writers to identify and reach their goals to improve and succeed at their craft.
John lives in Utah with his lovely wife and a variable number of mostly grown children and a constantly changing subset of extended family.
Check out his blog and join his mailing list while you're there.
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July 1, 2023
Unique story, exciting plot
I really enjoyed this book. The mining op was a great setting, and the source and mechanics interesting. I felt a few scenes ran a little long, but overall, the pace as they solved problems was tense. Going to buy the next book!
I really enjoyed this book. The mining op was a great setting, and the source and mechanics interesting. I felt a few scenes ran a little long, but overall, the pace as they solved problems was tense. Going to buy the next book!
February 13, 2023
A nerveracking tense space adventure and thriller
A detailed space adventure. A thriller, a mysterious but challenging set of situations amd circumstance drawing the full range of individual survival skills to overcome corporate betrayal. Facing death at every turn, the characters, buried below surface, draw on a wide range of skills to improvise to within Inches of their lives to survive. Bombarded from space they fight back. Survival their ultimate goal a true cliffhanger of a book. The beginning of a series.
A detailed space adventure. A thriller, a mysterious but challenging set of situations amd circumstance drawing the full range of individual survival skills to overcome corporate betrayal. Facing death at every turn, the characters, buried below surface, draw on a wide range of skills to improvise to within Inches of their lives to survive. Bombarded from space they fight back. Survival their ultimate goal a true cliffhanger of a book. The beginning of a series.
April 16, 2023
Olsen, John M. Discovery. Kindle, 2022. Polecat Protocol 1.
Discovery takes place on a far-future mining rig in the asteroid belt of a distant star, but it could just as well be set in the near future in our own star system. Its characters also seem closer to home than is credible. Although its characters are all adults, it reads like a young-adult novel of the Heinleinian era. Its story is an old-fashioned space adventure that sticks close to known science and engineering. 3.5 stars.
Discovery takes place on a far-future mining rig in the asteroid belt of a distant star, but it could just as well be set in the near future in our own star system. Its characters also seem closer to home than is credible. Although its characters are all adults, it reads like a young-adult novel of the Heinleinian era. Its story is an old-fashioned space adventure that sticks close to known science and engineering. 3.5 stars.
March 14, 2025
A disaster flick in space
I wasn't sure what to think based on the title, but Olsen has delivered a thrilling story with high stakes danger that feels like a disaster flick like the Poseidon Adventure, or the Towering Inferno, mixed with the intrigue and sci fi mining aspects of Outland. Characters you want to see succeed and others you hope die in flames and agony are the hallmarks of well written stories, and this book has them in spades!
I wasn't sure what to think based on the title, but Olsen has delivered a thrilling story with high stakes danger that feels like a disaster flick like the Poseidon Adventure, or the Towering Inferno, mixed with the intrigue and sci fi mining aspects of Outland. Characters you want to see succeed and others you hope die in flames and agony are the hallmarks of well written stories, and this book has them in spades!
January 26, 2023
A very good read
This is a book emphasizing the power of leadership and teamwork. A group of miners, abandoned and attacked come together to form a team that learns to overcome and survive. It’s reminiscent of older more traditional syfy. Very highly recommended.
This is a book emphasizing the power of leadership and teamwork. A group of miners, abandoned and attacked come together to form a team that learns to overcome and survive. It’s reminiscent of older more traditional syfy. Very highly recommended.
February 26, 2023
A Totally Different Ride
Wow. A unique sci-fi story about a bunch of miners light years from home trying to survive after their supper station is destroyed. Interesting to see how they survive.
Wow. A unique sci-fi story about a bunch of miners light years from home trying to survive after their supper station is destroyed. Interesting to see how they survive.
August 16, 2022
Great sci fi thriller
The body count is high, the worldbuilding is excellent and believable, and the story is compelling. I'm looking forward to the next book.
The body count is high, the worldbuilding is excellent and believable, and the story is compelling. I'm looking forward to the next book.
February 17, 2023
Miners get abused and attacked at a remote moon. Purchased this kindle book for free from Amazon on January 23, 2023.
August 9, 2023
Different but good
Not the usual storyline, but well worth the time.Im moving on to the next book to see where this goes.
Not the usual storyline, but well worth the time.Im moving on to the next book to see where this goes.
December 5, 2024
Thoroughly enjoyable. Although there was a battle, it is a story about miners, engineers and managers.
April 23, 2025
Можна читати, але, в цілому, сюжет досить примітивний. Продовження серії навря чи буду читати.
January 28, 2023
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GOOD BOOK.
Unless you don’t like it when wimmens are engineers who always seem to be the smartest entity in the galaxy??
Or books that go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on….
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GOOD BOOK.
Unless you don’t like it when wimmens are engineers who always seem to be the smartest entity in the galaxy??
Or books that go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on….
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May 15, 2024
Trouble on a asteroid
They were mining asteroid when trouble with the boss happens. It just gets worse from there until luck does there way.
They were mining asteroid when trouble with the boss happens. It just gets worse from there until luck does there way.
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