PG's Books

The one thing I really, really like with this book series is that the humans are not the underdogs and wimps as they are in a lot of other books series. We might have been behind technologically at the start but we do kick butt and we are not to be messed with.

This book appears to be a build up for a final “clobber time” between the humans and the evil Klin and the Kracori. It seems like the Juireans might join the party as well.

As before the book focuses on the exploits of Adam Cain and his friends. In two separate threads we follow Adam Cain as he discovers the imminent Kracori threat and Riyad as he investigates the alleged whereabouts of the Kracori home planet. Both threads are very enjoyable reads with plenty of opportunity for some good displays of old-fashioned human violence to the usual stunned surprise of the aliens witnessing it.

In a third thread we follow the scumbag Nigel McCarthy. Those parts were probably the parts that I liked the least. I rarely like to follow the subversive activities of the devious and scheming bad guys.

The book is very much in the style of the previous ones and, as I wrote above, it advances the story nicely in what appears to be a build up for the final confrontation. I am quite looking forward to read the next one.