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Drop Trooper, Book 7

By: Rick Partlow

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin

Cam is a Marine, not a spy.

That’s what he keeps trying to tell Fleet Intelligence. But when he and Vicky signed back up, they agreed to follow orders. And their orders are to keep working for the Corporate Security Force, and find out what the private paramilitary force knows about Zan-Thint, and his plans to use Predecessor technology against the Commonwealth.

The trouble is, the CSF doesn’t seem to care about Zan-Thint anymore. They send Cam and Vicky, and a crew of mercenary Drop Troopers, to an isolated mining world called Portent. Their job? To put down a rebellion by wildcat miners who don’t want the Corporate Council stealing the fruits of their labor. Somehow, they’ve been able to hire the baddest mercenaries in the Commonwealth, to hold onto their planet.

Stuck leading a crew of cutthroat mercenaries - who want nothing more than to slaughter the wildcat miners, and take their rhenium ore - facing down an even more cutthroat band of mercenaries who’ll kill anyone they consider a threat, Cam and Vicky try to negotiate a course between the two, and figure out who’s actually paying the mercenaries, and why the Corporate Council is really interested in a backwoods rhenium mine.

Because nothing on Portent is as it seems.... And their allies might be just as ready to kill them, as their enemies.

Book 7 in the Amazon best-selling Drop Trooper series by Rick Partlow is here. It's military sci-fi, the way it's supposed to be!

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Another great chapter

In the saga of Cam and Vicky!! Lots of action, adventure and combat!! Now on to book 8

great story

lots of unhanded stuff and more losses. can he make it through the next stage in his life guess we will all find out.

Worth your time.

There’s a part of me that wants to give all 5s like I did the first 4 books. I still really enjoy this series and if you’ve made it this far in the series you’re of course going to listen to this one.
I can’t imagine anybody else performing this series. James Patrick Cronin nails it.

A must listen.

I wish I would have rated the previous books. Rick Partlow really knows how to engage reader and James Patrick Cronin’s performance really keeps the listener tuned in. The whole Drop Trooper series so far has been an awesome ride.
If you like Space SYFI these books could be right for you.

Excellent!!!

His books keep me interested for hours, love the story! Characters are wonderful also. can't wait for the next one!

Cam & Vicky at it AGAIN

I was entertained thoroughly with this book. There is realistic continuity but with growth in your main characters. At times I DID find my attention straying a little. It seemed like a pattern was emerging, Cam gets in trouble, Cam saved at the last minute. But, you mixed things up a bit to which I found refreshing. Things were taken to the limits and beyond this time. ***BEWARE SPOILERS***
I am first and foremost very pleased to see Cam building up a supporting cast of friends and team mates. He NEEDS a win in this department and I was psyched that Dunstin & Fargo made it through. For what’s coming next, he’ll need all the Brothers & Sisters he can get. I’m waiting for Cam and his team to be in an impossible situation and have his friend from the past (Briganttia) show up or run into an ex marine that served with Captain Covington. It would be cool for that to get his foot in the door of some impossible scenario. It would be awesome to hear some of the Captains backstory. Pirate wars, or whatever. It feels like he’s in a cyclone this time. Before he had Capt. Covington (R.I.P.) and Lt. Ackley & Scotty. Then he was promoted and he was able to wade through those waters with the lessons he learned from them coupled with his sincere character. However, he is in a world he’s never known, spy craft. Constant deception. He did it in Trans-Angelas, but he HAD to survive. I don’t like his odds if he’s forced to be someone he is not. He’ll do the right thing and this time, he’s distracted with having the love of his life “on his left” so to speak. I’m going to dive right into book eight and see if you can break the curse of the Sci-fi writer with a great ending. Those damned Skrella are pretty terrifying. My hopes are Top will be there more to support him. I know I mispelled a few things, and I hope you will forgive that. I write this review directly to the author. Thank you, for giving me a world to escape into. Those opportunities seem few and far between lately. Keep it up, I can’t help but feel some of the threads in your stories come from personal experiences.
Semper Fi!

getting to be redundant

The story feels like a regurgitation of the previous one. some passages are repeated word for word in the story. the Vicki not happy thing is repeated several times.

No next book?

Why is the next book in the series “Release point” not available? That is very disappointing.