It is with great pleasure that I see this book in print. Jack Mackenzie just keeps getting better and better. This is a fun ride with plenty of action in space plus a great love story between Franklin and Sri. It’s a treat you won’t want to miss. — GW
A SPACE SHIP IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS GEAR CREW
That is the mantra that itinerant ‘gears’ − starship engineers − Franklin and Sri live by. They’ve just been hired to work aboard a prestigious luxury liner, but their plans are disrupted when an unknown fleet presses a ruthless attack.
Fleeing to safety, they and their semi-sentient toolbox organism known as the Quiddle, wind up aboard the Alizarin Crimson, a ship that is barely holding itself together and run by a dysfunctional crew led by the bullying Captain Boris Tankready. Turning the Crimson from space junk to shipshape is a challenge made more difficult by the discovery of a strange derelict.
While Franklin and Sri try to solve the mystery of the derelict, they find themselves confronted with an invasion force of creatures intent on wiping out all human beings in the galaxy.
The only thing standing between humanity and utter obliteration, is the Alizarin Crimson and its gear crew.
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Other Space Adventures by Jack Mackenzie
BEST SELLER!
He was a soldier without a war, alone and unwanted, until he discovered an alien enemy… Jefferson Odett found a skull on a blasted world on the edge of human space, just before the campaign against the rebel stationers was called off. A skull that was not human.
When the transport taking him home is attacked by a strange alien vessel, crewed by fearsome creatures, Odett barely manages to escape with his life.
Convinced the skull he found was from the same species as the aliens who attacked his transport, Odett believes they represent a deadly threat to humanity. The commanders of Earth’s military disagree and dismiss his claim. They send him to a remote outpost of a few hundred colonists. Saddled with a platoon of undisciplined and mostly green soldiers, Odett finds himself in an unenviable command on a backwater world.
But there is something else on this forgotten world — something frightening that he has encountered before. Odett and his platoon of green soldiers, hard cases and discipline problems are all that stand between the colonists and an alien army of unspeakable power who will kill any species that gets in their way.
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PIRATES, ALIENS, BUREAUCRATS – WHO CAN YOU TRUST?
Korax is a colony world beset by problems. Pirates have targeted the world for plunder, a race of wandering alien nomads have made themselves at home and the colony’s new governor seems intent on making enemies of just about everyone.
Jefferson Odett would rather be out on the rim, fighting the war for humanity, but a misadventure has landed him here. Now he has to try to secure a planet that does not want its new governor, the aliens who have moved in, or the platoon of undisciplined soldiers under Odett’s command. The only thing the colony seems to want is the pirate that Odett has been ordered to kill.
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SOME ENEMIES DO NOT ACCEPT DEFEAT
The long conflict between humanity and the Kreoch Empire is over. Humanity has won. The Fleet is victorious. Everything has changed. Kent McLennan commands the Fleet ship Meritorious on a mission to accept the Kreoch surrender. But the Kreoch are not taking defeat so easily.
Twenty years ago the greatest hero that the Fleet had ever known, Jack Church, was killed by a misguided assassin. Jack Church’s tactical genius was an integral part of the eventual downfall of the Kreoch. If Jack Church had never existed, how different would the outcome have been? What if his tactical knowledge could be used to serve the enemy?
What if the Kreoch found a way to turn their defeat into an ultimate victory?
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A FORGOTTEN WORLD, A POWERFUL ARTIFACT AND A GALAXY ON THE BRINK OF WAR
Solis DeLacey, captain of the ACSC ship BOSTON, has been sent to a newly discovered world rich in natural resources. But one ship and her crew has already gone missing while surveying the planet and the finger of suspicion is pointing directly to the ACSC`s sworn enemy, the Orion Hegemony.
DeLacey, her crew and a ship full of scientists find a world teeming with life including the enigmatic natives, the Shum. But with the arrival of a Hegemony vessel crewed by Da’baa’kh, ruthless, animal-like soldiers, the game changes. The Da’baa’kh are hell bent on finding an ancient treasure – an artifact powerful enough to bring the entire ACSC to its knees.
Now DeLacey must discover its secret and defeat her enemies before the galaxy is plunged into total war.
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