And these books just keep on coming! We’re up to 24 now and I’m amazed by the amount of imagination that goes into creating each one of these books. This one is one of the better ones because it has an actual true mission that caused the Legion to act even though James McGill is still among them! As you’ll recall, James McGill was caught in a little bind during the last book. His family, well, Etta, her husband and child, William, are now living on Rage world which is a Rebel world according to the Earth leadership. They are not welcomed on Earth and McGill understands the feeling because he doesn’t support this rebel cause one bit.
Still, it’s family he’s concerned about. He did his part by killing the Rebel Commander Armel and taking his sword. So now he’s considered the “Hero of Rage World” because that pretty much stopped the rebellion in its tracks. That mission was over and he had just about forgotten all the troubles it brought when he had a late night visitor to his shack in Georgia. That’s not all that surprising since James has had numerous late night visits by various females and this was no different, except this female was his daughter Etta! She definitely shouldn’t be here and James told her that much as soon as he recognized who she was.
What she was doing there was to attempt to retrieve Armel’s consciousness. See James had taken Armel’s consciousness just after he killed him by tapping his tapper against his own. That consciousness was now securely stored with McGill for all eternity unless James found some reason to let it go. Etta was there to retrieve it or at least try. James wasn’t in the mood to just give it to her so they made an agreement that Etta and her family had to come to the farm on Earth for Thanksgiving to satisfy Jame’s Mother and Etta’s Grandmother. If she did that, then James said he’d give by Armel’s consciousness.
But, during this conversation, James was notified of an emergency alert recalling all Legion Varus soldiers. So, he had to pack up and go. This is where his new mission gets started, although James manages to get sidetracked on several occasions. It seems like something has gone wrong on one of Earth’s colonies. James wasn’t sure which one but he soon found out during one of those boring high-level mission briefings he had to attend. It seems that this colony had stopped all communications with Earth. Satellite surveillance showed that everything on the colony planet seemed to be working just fine, except the colonist weren’t talking to Earth. It was also noted that this colonies output of mined resources was drastically increasing. They were shipping out tons more raw materials than in the past and nobody could figure out why. It seemed as though the colony had gone to a twenty-four hour production cycle and everyone was involved.
Yet, there had been a colony ship that had escaped just prior to all this starting. The Earth satellites had observed this ship leaving the planet with smaller ships chasing after it as though to stop the occupants from escaping. But, escape they did and now two of those colonist were down in Blue Level being looked after. Blue Level was a quarantine level for all kinds of hazards. McGills history with handling aliens and such was know to even Consul Wurtenberger. So he ordered McGill to go down to Blue Level and find out what was going on with these colonist. Wurtenberger wanted to know if this was some kind of rebel action or if these colonist were infected with something strange and McGill was the guy to find out.
So, McGill reluctantly went down to Blue Level and gets to meet Megan. Now McGill has some strange attraction with women of all kinds. Yet this Megan seemed just fine to McGill. Now the other colonist was a huge dude who had obviously been a miner. McGill found out soon enough that this big guy was even stronger than he looked because he attacked McGill for no reason and his attack was faster than a normal human. He was also much stronger than possible and almost choked McGill to death. But McGill never goes unarmed so he took the knife out of his boot and was able to stab the brute in a fatal area. As the guy was lying on the floor, something like a metallic slug came crawling out of his ear. James immediately stomped on it, smashing it dead! That made the biohazard personnel very unhappy.
Long story short, McGill develops a relationship with Megan who doesn’t seem to be infected with whatever is controlling her fellow colonist. Further, McGill finds out that several more colonies have cut off communication with Earth, but are still producing whatever trade products they used to produce at an alarming rate. So, Legion Varus is ordered to go and to an investigation as to what is happening. McGill is alarmed by the number of new colonies that Earth has now established. He knows that legally, Earth was only allowed to establish three colonies, but now it seems as they have some seventeen colony planets. He hopes the galactics don’t find out about this!
So now we’re going to deal with an entirely new alien species. Their origin could spell serious trouble for Earth. They are also almost impossible to destroy without destroying the humans they inhabit. There’s going to be a lot of killing in this book, but it looks like humans are killing their own kind. Will they be able to do this for long?
Hopefully, this isn’t the last book in this series although it has gone on for quite a while. Still, we’ll just have to wait to see if a new one comes out eventually.
==[Note: As of 12/03/2023, this will not be published on Amazon since I have been banned from posting reviews for some unknown reason. Once the ban is lifted, assuming it does get lifted, I’ll go back and post this to Amazon.]==