Wild Lands

New Frontier, Book 2

De: Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony Melchiorri

Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot

War is coming to the Wild Lands...

One month after the defeat of a rogue group of terrorists, the United States struggles to maintain control over the New Frontier. The untamed sector of America simmers as opportunists, criminals, and marauders wait to fill the void left behind. An extremist faction of the Navajo Nation called the Rattlesnakes have waited years for this moment. Their leader launches their first, brutal attack on a water treatment and power facility in Colorado.

The message is clear to Colorado Sheriff Lindsey Plymouth and her foreign allies working to keep peace: a new enemy has risen up. Lindsey enlists Raven Spears to track the Rattlesnakes and bring their leader to justice before they can strike again. As the trail gets hot, Raven realizes this is just one of many assaults the Rattlesnakes have planned to conquer the New Frontier.

With violence spilling over the borders, America’s foreign allies begin to question the cost to their own forces and start to withdraw. Lindsey and the Colorado Rangers scramble to find new allies, but it will take more than a few friends to hold back the growing Rattlesnake army. If they fail to defeat this new evil, it will devour the New Frontier.

©2022 Nicholas Sansbury Smith (P)2022 Recorded Books

SW2

Loved it. The characters are real and the story is one that could happen! It is sad to see likeable people leave even though it is necessary.

Wild Lands

I enjoyed the first 2 books, looking forward to see what revenge Raven dishes up for Eddie. Hope we Don't have to wait too long.
JD

Awesome story

This is a great story that keeps you listening at the edge of your seat. Very real and not too far fetched. Great book!!!!

Good 2nd book in series.

I enjoyed this second book with the series. Good storyline although the battles between the factions seem to drag on a bit much.

Great Story!

Looking forward to book three.

Never a dull moment, grateful we get to experience the new frontier again. Keep up the great work and thank you.

Happy with the book, narration and pace.

Good pace and builds on book 1 and 2. I will move on to book 4, in hopes that scenes stay knitted together- as one with an old brain keeping track of the characters needs coherence.

enjoyed the story, fights are poorly written

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so story and characters are fun. the fights scenes are like lets make the good guys red shirts and storm troopers. experienced fighters routinely turn their backs on opponents so they can be easily killed. the defenders can hit people at close range. people on a wall behind cover can't stop folls running across an open field. they can understand an ambush but no one can can tell when they are being baited or when an attack os a feint. i mean the incompetence of the good guys is just unbelievable. not to mention the need to keep killing known characters for cheap emotional response. lastly, the bad guys have law rockets and grenades, but the good guys have no anti personnel mines, grenades, rpgs rockets or missiles? a drone with missiles would end several of the fights quickly.... not to mention why are we not using satellite to track enemies. they are still safely in space just need to rebuild radio towers. it's just so unbelievable how poorly the good guys do and how poorly they are equipped and staged and thats with foreign aid.

Loved it!

So glad to have this new series bringing together the characters from Estes Park, Colorado.
Great new folks too.
Spoiler alert* this could make you cry.

another good book and good performance!

easy listin.. love story line and the authors! would recommend to anyone for an enjoyable strory

Enjoyable, Captivating, At Times Infuriating

As book 2 of the follow up series to Trackers, it really feels like this is part of original series except that the US is a bit farther along in the recovery process, there's a new, additional crisis in the form of a highly contagious and highly fatal plague sweeping across the New Frontier, and, instead of "General" Phoenix and his merry band of racists and murders we now have Eddie and his much larger, much more deadly Rattlesnakes militia.

Seriously, if you thought "General" Phoenix was bad, he was basically a feral kitten compared to Eddie. This guy has managed to take over a very large portion of the New Frontier and turn every town, village, and encampment into soldiers fighting for his cause. He uses false rumors, lies, promises, and deadly force to turn all of these people against the US government, making them believe that the volunteers that go out trying to save lives and curtail the spread of Wildfire are the enemy. His goal is to take over the New Frontier, killing or evicting anyone who represents the US or it's foreign allies.

‼️(WARNING: there may be a few minor spoilers below so if you want to avoid them, please stop here.) ‼️

It's working all too well, too, especially given the amount of people he's recruited to his army and the mind boggling number of military grade weapons he's managed to amass. And then there's Eddie's brilliant head for strategy, which is where the "frustrating" part of my review title comes in. How many times will Lyndsey, Raven, and their allies fall for Eddie's misdirection and distractions while he destroys the heck out of everything and everyone they're desperately trying to protect? And why oh WHY do these people keep letting him slip out from under their fingers??

Yes, I've been yelling at these inanimate characters for the last half of the book. My family probably thinks I've gone nuts! Fortunately they put up with me, especially since I'm now diving into book 3 and there will probably be more yelling in the very near future. 😅

PS: I feel bad for always putting this at the very end of my reviews but the narration was fantastic. Bronson Pinchot doesn't just speak the words, he portrays the feelings behind them as if the actual characters were speaking instead of a narrator, making the dialogue that much more captivating.