"It's a grunt's world."

A superb military science fiction novel, first in a series.
When a call to help is received from a small 10,000 person community in Madron, Pathfinders sent to assess the problem encountered ships of unknown type and origin, neither Commonwealth nor Consortium. And Pappy and his patrol soon found themselves on an inhospitable and bleak yellow sand planet, with active geysers and vicious storms with no easy way off, facing alien technology which far surpassed their own.

For those readers looking for action, it's here in abundance, with fighting scenarios which are a!most visceral, inclusive and atmospheric. But there is also so much more, with the protagonists all being given good background histories and the major players being fully fleshed out into realistoc, living entities so that an empathy forms even with some who might otherwise be left simply as villains. This is also a first contact meeting between two very different cultures and technologies, the differences imaginatively presented. To survive, and end the fighting, the earth team will have to not only get very creative but also learn to put aside prejudice - and trust.

Narration in the Audio book is excellently performed by Ryan Kennard Burke, who puts the reader right into the heart of the story. He makes it feel personal. Altogether a very good read with even has an amusingly satisfying ending. I look forward to the second in Jonathan Hernandez's Gordion Knot .

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