Author:
Matthew O. Duncan is part of the resurgence of Old School Sci-fi.  His books are a mix of Military Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, and Mystery weaved together with non-stop action.  Matt started his writing career as a playwright. He won a number of awards and had his plays produced on local stages.  He put his pen down in the late ’90s but picked it up again in 2011.

Jack Reilly’s luck ran out just before the war did. Released on a medical discharge shortly after the end of the war with the Serkins, he went out into the galaxy looking for a job. Signing onto the Glacier Runner 17, an old and rundown cargo ship, Rielly finds himself working for a clueless Captain, mixed up in an intergalactic conspiracy, on the run from assassins and involved with two women in relationships that he could only call ‘complicated.’

Fan’s of Matthew O. Duncan will recognize the universe as the same as from the New Terra Sagas, but this is not a sequel. This is a stand-alone, spin-off with new characters, new worlds and in a different format. Told in the first person from Reilly’s perspective, this is a fast moving, non-stop sci-fi adventure.

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There was a change in the war room as if someone let some of the pressure out.  Our fleet moved closer to the planets, and after another ten minutes they launched 240 dropships each carrying about 60 armed infantry troopers from both the fleet Marine Corp and Army Infantry.  I never understood why the Marines never  integrated into the fleet like the Air Force, Navy, and Army.  They still used the old rank structure, have different uniforms and acted as if they were cut from a different cloth as the rest of us. I remember thinking Someday I’ll have to ask Mitchell about that, that is if she comes back.  Damn.


Chapter 28: Boots on the Ground