Race Against Time

Roderick Vance is the head of Martian intelligence, a position he received after the suspicious death of his mother and father. Although he is young, and has little to no training in the world of intelligence, he is immediately tasked with a very important mission. The potential first contact with a sentient alien species. He sends in his best team to a foreign world to capture an secure the wreckage of an alien ship.

Unfortunately he isn’t the only one with intel on the ship. The Alliance Intelligence, led by Gavin Stark, also knows about the ship based on word from a double agent inside the Martian Intelligence. Very quickly the story turns in to a race against time to see who will get there first, and who will still be standing.

Red team alpha is a sect of elite warriors from mars. All battle tested. All with a record of success. That is, until Alex Vandenburg comes along. He is about as green as green gets. He passed all the tests with flying colors, and got an officers commission rather young, but there is a rule in Red Team Alpha. You have to be a combat veteran to get in. Vandenburg goes through not only the trials of joining a new unit, but also many interpersonal conflicts due to his “cherry” status.

All in all, I really liked the story overall. Theres a lot of combat and suspense and a lot of the character interactions seemed realistic, however, the narration by Stephen Bel Davies left a bit to be desired. He did a pretty good job of narrating the story, but something about his voice just makes him really easy to tune out without trying. I found myself having to go back and rewind parts of the story, sometimes up to 10 minutes or more, because as he was talking, I just spaced out and didn’t realize it. Outside of that, his narration was good. Crisp and well done.

As far as Jay Allen is concerned, I like the way he wrote the book. It’s kind of odd to jump in to a prequel series without having read the originals, but he did a decent job of covering all the important things that I wouldn’t have known otherwise without having read the first series. Overall, I really liked it and would consider listening to book 2 in this series.



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Great SciFi book.

Especially if you have read the Crimson World series. I just love these multi series books.

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WORST READER EVER

he never learned proper emphasis or vocal grammar. totally distracting from an otherwise entertaining story.

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