Review: I would buy several more of this series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2013
FIVE STARS for "The Scrapyard Incident-Junkyard Dogs" by Phillip Nolte.Yes, I give a lot of 5-star ratings to books I read. I have found many great reads in the $5.99 and under books here on Amazon (most were cheaper than that).  I've also found some duds, but my success rate has been higher than my dud rate.I don't know about the rest of the raters, but my ratings are based on how much I enjoyed the story. I'm not an editor or an English major (engineering). Bad punctuation, don't care-I read right past it. Misspellings-as long as I understand the sentence, it's OK. Modern terminology in a historical book-I read right over it. Just give me a story that doesn't put me to sleep with some likable characters and I'm as happy as a clam."The Scrapyard Incident" grabbed me and wouldn't turn loose until I finished. I normally go to bed before 10PM, but as I finished the Epilog, I noticed it was approaching 2:30AM. The story would not let me stop reading until I finished.The sfi-fi story takes place mostly in a scrapyard, a small moon-sized 'clump' of wrecked or destroyed spaceships from the previous war. The secondary plot is on a space station orbiting a fictitious planet. The main characters are an ensign who is researching some old ships for her PhD in history, along with an engineering lieutenant and a  former chief, who was busted for fighting. The subplot revolves around the yard commander and his girlfriend, who is a diplomat waiting to negotiate a treaty. They are at the space station.While the 3 junkyard dogs are out in the yard and the commander is on the space station, both are attacked. The yard command module is destroyed and the station is captured. The action then takes place in both places with the 'Dogs' taking case of their end, then helping the commander re-take the station.The characters are human and believable. They make mistakes; they get injured, but they keep on truckin'. There is a little romance, but not much. There is a ton of action all the way through the book. If you like good characters and lots of action, don't miss this book.Just after 2:30AM, I checked Phillip Nolte's page for the next book in the series. AAARRRGGG!!! He hasn't done the next book in the series yet. I nearly docked him a star.Edited August 30, 2013. I just finished a second read of "The Scrapyard Incident." It's still 5 stars in my opinion and was even better the second time through. Since I stayed up until the wee hours to finish the first time, I didn't remember the latter third of the book. I definitely enjoyed it this time. For sure I didn't remember that all the ship and vehicles in the resistance had dog names or that the Governor, when he mentioned the ships, called them the "Junkyard Dogs." It was a great read. I, for one, am eagerly waiting for the next in Nolte's series, "Junkyard Dogs."