Review: Definitely Comparable to the Solar Clipper Trader Series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2011
I picked up this ebook title because an Amazon reviewer mentioned that Temporary Duty is comparable to the excellent Solar Clipper Trader Tales series.  And the comparison is right on the mark.  Two low level enlisted sailors are given the unglamorous task of prepping an alien spaceship for the "official" human delegation, but the plot is anything but pedestrian.Ric Locke has a fertile imagination, and gets these two young men into one form of trouble after another with both the aliens and the humans.  I can't remember the last time the IRS is even thought of in a sci-fi novel, and here this beloved agency eventually plays a role in the story.Temporary Duty is an easy, fun, and enjoyable light reading.