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Amazon link: Combat Orders
Author: Jim Kiernan (@JimKiernan4)
Thumbnail sketch: Outstanding military sci-fi tales with great characters and thrilling action.
4 Stars
My take on Combat Orders
Combat Orders by Jim Kiernan is the latest great read discovered through my social media feed. For all the negatives associated with the leadership change of that certain micro-blogging site, I’ve been fortunate to continue to get solid recommendations for entertaining reads from followers and followed alike.
The four stories of Combat Orders, set in the same fictional sandbox, include a pulse-pounding run and gun escape from a starship captured by unknown hostiles and a mind-bending tale melding Zero Dark Thirty and Quantum Leap.
Those are the closing and opening stories, respectively, bracketing slightly quieter tales about a wartime romance that’s truly long distance and a grizzled vet’s meditative look at a career of war in the stars. Each story features solid and interesting characters and thrilling action, and there are moments of dark humor anyone who’s served will nod at knowingly.
I can’t wait to read more from this author.
Scott Whitmore, writer 