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Craig Alanson
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United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite expeditionary force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-merry band of pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of light years from home. The ancient alien AI they nicknamed Skippy is apparently dead, and even if they can by some miracle revive him, he might never be the same.
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just like the rest GREAT
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5th book, great reading performance story is a sof
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The writing, narrating is brilliant thank you.
My only wish from Audible is in your program allow two things more:-
A: allow my device to show my time without interruption to my listening.
B: while listening my audible play/book revert to my home screen, optional to me as I find leaving audible up uses my battery way faster.....
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Awesomeness
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Fun that has maintained the flavour of the first
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Fantastic
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