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Dust World

Undying Mercenaries, Book 2

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Dust World

By: B. V. Larson
Narrated by: Mark Boyett
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The Galactics arrived with their Battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spans the Milky Way. Our only worthwhile trade goods are our infamous mercenary legions, elite troops we sell to the highest alien bidder.

In 2122 a lost colony expedition contacts Earth, surprising our government. Colonization is against Galactic Law, and Legion Varus is dispatched to the system to handle the situation. Earth gave them sealed orders, but Earth is thirty-five lightyears away. The Legion commanders have a secret plan of their own. And then there's James McGill, who was never too good at listening to authority in the first place...

In Dust World, book two of the Undying Mercenaries Series, McGill is promoted to Specialist and sent to a frontier planet outside the Empire. Earth's status within the Empire will never be the same.

©2014 B. V. Larson (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Fantasy Fiction Military Science Fiction Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Thriller Space

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Great book can't wait to listen to the next story you have to listen to all of the books

5 star 🌟

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If you could sum up Dust World in three words, what would they be?

I wouldn't use that few words to sum up a brilliant book. Would be an insult to the author.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Without doubt McGill, although I love Veteran Harris (Mark Boyett's vocalisation of his part is brilliant, really helps you envisage the man) and Centurion Graves.

What about Mark Boyett’s performance did you like?

Oh, all of it, he really gets to the nub of the characters and portrays them brilliantly and unfalteringly, although watch for a mistake in the last few minutes of the book, but that didn't really spoil it at all. Just a bit of an easter egg :)

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me laugh, the legionnaires are treated ruthlessly, and Primus Turov is just like a middle manager would be, If it works, its my idea, if it fails, you get the blame.
In fact the whole of legion Varus could be holding the mirror up to any large corporation who don't care about their staff, but more about their assets.

Any additional comments?

You can't sum the book up in sentences! Download it, listen to it, (make Steelworld your first) - if you like science fiction, you'll love this series.

A brilliant follow on from Steelworld

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I get it, every female character is a gorgeous set piece to be ogled and fawned over every single time they come in to view. Gets more and more tedious to have it hamfisted in to any and all situations, I'm surprised there isn't a female squid beast for him to leer it and seduce. Keep it in your pants, would you.

A 15 Year Old's Approach to Romance

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Read well and fantastic story. Another amazing series from BV Larson. Gripping story that leads you to needing the next book.

Brilliant

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well written and good imagination of off world events and galatic politics. this is the second book I have listen to and will continue to with more.

well written and good imagination

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I stumbled across this series and have been hooked ever since. Larsons creativity and story telling ability is cosmic in proportion, yet somehow easy to believe and quick to draw you in

Very Engaging and enjoyable book

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Having really enjoyed my first B V Larson book, Steel World, I decided to go right into the next book in the Undying Mercenaries series, Dust World and pick up where the previous book left off. This second instalment in the series does indeed continue more or less directly on from the end of the first book where our hero, James McGill has now been blooded having experienced his first brutal campaign against a Saurian race on an equally brutal planet. McGill gets some much needed R & R but has his leave cut short by a much needed contract that requires his legion to head off out to a distant planet that has recently indicated the presence of human colonists. The mission is to wipe out the colonists as the Galactic Empire which Earth serves does not allow any member world to colonize other worlds once under the mantle of the Galactics.

However, while en route to the source of the system where the signal from the long thought lost colonists came the legion ship is attacked by a race of squid-like creatures intent on killing its occupants. These new nasties don't count on the presence of a hard core military unit aboard and our heroes deal death to the invading squids after a hard fight. However, the damage has been done and the legion ship is locked on a course with the local star. The legion must leave the ship via the lifters and make planetfall in the system as best they can.

OK, so enough of the chance of a further plot reveal. Once the legion has occupied various valleys on the chosen world they encounter the long lost human colonists and there ensues all sorts of trouble for the hapless McGill. As if dealing with hostile colonists isn't enough the squids make a return and all hell breaks loose.

Dust World brings new and weird aliens into the mix in this story and Larson paints a vivid picture of the strange world and even stranger aliens. Larson does an excellent job of pulling the reader into this hostile environment once more and this second book in the Undying Mercenaries series again delivers the goods and there's plenty of combat and destruction to satisfy any reader of the first book in this series.

Larson leaves the story at an interesting turning point with regard to Earth and McGill's legion which have the potential to introduce all sorts of story elements as the series progresses.

If you liked Steel World then you'll enjoy Dust World just as much.

Highly recommended.

More Alient Bashing At Its Best!

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overall this was a good read although there were a few moments your thinking, really.

another good read

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Better than book 1.the story is coming alive.Looking forward to book 3 and what happens to the empire

Great read!

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Real good Sci-fi story characters growing on me Steel World started a little slow but by the end the personalities of the characters started to grow. It's as much the Sci-fi for me as the world's they visit Dust world and how the characters cope fail or succeed. It's definitely a space type Western North American type vibe coming from the story, but I don't feel it distracts in any way.

Real Sci-fi story

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