Pursuit of the Bold

Privateer Tales, Book 13

De: Jamie McFarlane

Narrado por: Mikael Naramore

A world-shattering invasion. A long-dead rumor. A death-defying risk to save humanity.

If the Kroerak Empire had a soft spot, Liam Hoffen would have found it by now. After years of fighting the blasted bug invaders, he’s all but thrown in the towel. To make matters worse, intercepted enemy plans show the empire’s next attack could wipe them off the map.

Rumors of a Kroerak weakness are their world’s only hope of survival. It’s too bad the keepers of the secret have long since turned into space dust. With time running out and alien bounty hunters in hot pursuit, Liam and his crew must venture to a long-forgotten planet. They’ll risk everything for a long-shot defense against certain annihilation.

Pursuit of the Bold is the start of a standalone trilogy in the Privateer Tales saga, a series of high-spirited space operas. If you like eccentric crews, exotic alien locations, and twists and turns you won’t see coming, then you’ll love Jamie McFarlane’s action-packed 13th book in the Privateer Tales epic.

Buy Pursuit of the Bold to set your course for an impossible interstellar mission today!

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pretty rad

I really love how these books develop. I'm stuck on the privateer tales until they're all finished!

Stagnate

i have enjoyed this series greatly but sadly its becoming to stagnate. im not sure i can listen to another in the series that ends with Liam screwing something up but still over coming all the odds. i understand that is story telling but when every single book ends the same way they just run together.

Fun space romp

Its amazing that such a talented narrator, Mikael Naramor can do such an awsum job with voicing characters, ßut cant sing a lic

Author over dramatizes remorse.

Some casualties seem a bit gratuitous, and hero agonizes a lot over deaths deliberate and collateral. My experience is that soldiers who agonize that much don't stay in service and this hero is a civilian privateer, so it's not quite believable. But the author is no where near as bad as Jay Allen who goes on for pages. Narrator is very good, easy to tell whose talking just from the voices he uses.

Fracking cliffhanger!

This series is deceptively more addicting than most. At first, it’s just a story here & there, but after 6 books in, I was consuming them like a chain smoker. Book 13 has the most cliff-hangerly ending of them all. I’ll prolly go into withdrawal awaiting the next 2 books’ publications.

Did you call my mama a sloop!?

it wasn't that good. I used the title from another book to make it better. I'm guessing most people will never get it. if you get the reference, throw me a helpful rating. that way I see how many actually get it. tired of this guy making bad deals by giving away good ships and not getting anything for it. then crying like a little girl about being poor.

Finally Had Enough

The first few full-length novels in this series were very good but it declined in quality and "jumped the shark" in Book 12. I tried Book 13 (Pursuit of the Bold) but gave up.

I have the same concerns as many other readers and, finally, they became too much to take. Just to get them off my chest here are some of my concerns.

1. The Tabitha Masters character. She is violent, ultra-competitive, aggressive, and very much focused on sex. She is like the warrior princess type that teenage boys are fascinated by, but I have never met a real woman remotely like her. I could just never find her believable as a character, and she got worse with each novel.

2. Violent aggressive women in general. The author seems hung up on violent aggressive women and we now have an entire humanoid species dominated by aggressive females.

3. The pace has become frenetic as the main characters go through a series of near-death adventures, surviving with only seconds or inches to spare. That pattern can be exciting but when it is overused the story just loses believability.

4. The author has re-used some plot devices too many times. For example, the main character's repeated experiences with septic systems have gotten tiresome and are no longer funny. Similarly, it seems like in every novel the main characters get a new or fixed up spaceship but go into debt in the process, then get their ship (or ships) nearly destroyed again and are constantly on the edge of bankruptcy.

5. The series has its good points and it is question of whether the bad points outweigh the good. For me, that happened in books 12 and 13.