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The Ghost Brigades

An Explosive Military Science Fiction Adventure

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The Ghost Brigades

By: John Scalzi
Narrated by: William Dufris
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The military SF sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series.

Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself?

Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The mastermind behind this lethal alliance is a traitor - Charles Boutin. He was a Colonial Defence Force scientist, with access to their biggest military secrets. Now the CDF's only hope is to discover Boutin's plan. Trouble is, Boutin's dead.

As a super-soldier created from Boutin's own DNA, Jared Dirac may have answers. However, when Dirac fails to access the scientist's memories, he's transferred to the Ghost Brigades for training. These elite troops are also cloned from the dead, so he might fit in. But will Dirac's memory return as the enemy plots the fate of humankind? And whose side is Dirac really on?

Continue the gripping space war series with The Last Colony.

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Critic reviews

A mix of Starship Troopers and Universal Soldier, Ghost evokes awakening, betrayal, and combat in the best military sci-fi tradition.
Scalzi's prose harkens back to the Golden Age of science fiction while still remaining fresh and vibrant
Like Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades is thinking fans' space opera . . . The Ghost Brigades maintains Scalzi's standing as one of SF's most rewarding purveyors of thrilling, gut-wrenching, and thoughtful space opera
If anyone stands at the core of the American science fiction tradition at the moment, it is Scalzi.
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I was really looking forward to a classic sci fi story, so I gave this series a shot, since so many people talk about it. It’s terrible. Characters range from cartoonish to utterly irrational. There’s so much exposition, most without any payoff. And overall, it’s just sooo boring.
It’s a specially hard read if you are not american. Because in the future, all “foreigners” are dumb brown idiots who can’t defend themselves and the army has go save them.

AWEFUL

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