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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“Commander Harrington!” I called out as I ran into the machine shop where he was supervising the reconstruction of items damaged and destroyed when the spy tried to take over the stations missile systems.  “Sir!” I called out over the noise of saws, drills and laser welders.  


“What is it?” he barked back after seeing it was me calling out to him.


“Sir, we have just over twenty troopers stranded in the combat zone, and I need a team to go with me in the blackbird to get them out.”


“Hold on lieutenant.  What the hell are you talking about?”


I then realized that he wasn’t up to speed about the battle as it wasn’t something being broadcast around the station.  So as quickly as I could, I explained the details of the battle, how the fleet was pulling back to regroup and how we have troops left behind on the ground who will be slaughtered if we don’t go after them now.


Chapter 29: Into the Fire