#33 Trident's Forge by Patrick S. Tomlinson

This book is set a few years after the first book but for the most part if you pick this one up in error and start first you will pick up the background without any problems.  Benson is no longer a police officer but since he is a hero to many he is drafted to go with several other people to deal with a first contact with the natives of Atlantis that wasn’t supposed to happen but did thanks to the separatists that snuck away and made a village near them.  Most people are worried about the one group warning the aliens against the others with examples of our past but it doesn’t seem to be the case. When a gathering of the tribes is called to let everyone know of the Earthlings then things go down the tubes quickly.

Benson and a native truth digger set out with others to find out who and why the gathering was attacked. And of course things are not what they seem there and problems back at the colony’s first city keep all the action moving quickly. This was a good read and I’ll be looking for the next book when it comes out.



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#34 The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross

With this latest installment in the series you don’t see either Bob or Mo.  Bob gets namechecked a few times and Alex shudders almost every time he is mentioned.  Alex is in Leeds for his first assignment, trying to ditch the sun, his family [Leeds is his hometown] and maybe get up to speed with all the constant training classes.
What Alex doesn’t know is the Oracle dept. has determined that something is going down in Leeds and things go quickly into the grinder as Alex is the point man to stop an invasion. The body counts are getting higher with each book and I think Stross was smart to move the focus of the story off Bob and Mo so they don’t suffer too many power ups before the final book.

I will say the ending had me swiping for another page in my review copy and I really want to see what comes next out of this ending.

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