A Tangled Road to Justice

Paladins of Distant Suns, Book 1

By: Olan Thorensen

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

Sometimes, it's best to read the fine print.

When former soldier Everett Cole signed on to help colony planets prepare for joining the Federation, his employers were disconcertingly vague about their identity and his duties. Yet, the pay was good, and it got him off Earth and on the way to a fresh start. More reservations arose when, 11 light-years from Earth, he met his partner, Edgar Millen, an enigmatic man with a penchant for violent solutions and a fetish for the mythology and language of the American Wild West.

It wasn't until they reached the colony world of Astrild that the mission became somewhat clearer. They were players in multi-faceted efforts to steer colony worlds in preparation for joining the Federation. Unfortunately, not all obstacles were amenable to diplomatic, political, or economic solutions. Cole and Millen were agents, troubleshooters, hired guns—or whatever you wanted to call them—tasked with removing impediments to civilized law and order, the methodology left open-ended.

Millen and Cole's first mission to test their partnership? The backwater town of Justice was under the control of a strongman and his henchmen. All they had to do was convince the cowed citizens to rise against their tormentor. Formal authority and backup? None.

©2023 Olan Thorensen (P)2024 Podium Audio

A fun read!

I enjoy Thorensen's sci-fi novels. They aren't heavy on the science, but his characters are interesting, he writes well enough, and the plots are reasonably entertaining. Like the Destiny's Crucible series, A Tangled Road to Justice reads like a 20th century man's fantasy and they are rife with gender stereotypes from that time. But I only winced when I came across them and wasn't offended enough to stop listening. The narrator did a good job, but I was puzzled about the accents. It didn't make sense to me that people who grew up far away from earth would retain accents typical of their earthly nationality--a local accent would be dominant, i think. But overall, a fun read!

A Corny as Sci—Fi

The performance was good but the story line was corny and not what I seek in colonization sci-fi novels.

Nothing

This was Not a very good book , I feel that I lost time reading it

Absolute mastery as a writer

This is a great book. The single most impressive thing about it though, is that the main character is UTTERLY different from the main character in the author's other series, Which I also love. Just preordered the next book.

Don't get hung up on the intro blurb BTW, it actually does make sense.

Bullseye, pardner!!

Great sci fi western fun! Scott is a fav reader as well , and 3rd person flows well, just like you said. I enjoyed it as much the second time around as the first time..... which is unusual for me

I just had to keep listening for the next episode

Nothing. This story is as good as under the alien sun series. Looking forward to the next addition.

A good story is now with the rewrite fantastic.

I enjoyed the first release and was skeptical of the need for a rewrite but I was wrong. The new story has so much better character development and the story has a quirky flavor to it now that I am a fan of the decision to rewrite. The previous narrator was better but the new narrator isn’t bad by any means. He grows on you.

Comfort food for the mind

I've spent the last half hour mulling over my review I wrote and rewrote it, and in the end I decided on simplicity. This novel is comfort food for the mind..

Story line and speaker

Nothing every thing was perfect I am glad I bought this thur audible so I can listen to it again

western lite

was a fun listen can not wait till book two im tired of righting to get 15 word just wanted to leave a short review