Review: Excellent 1st in a new military SF series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
I enjoyed the author's earlier 2-book series - "The Kazak Guardians" and "The Unthinkable." "The Black Guard" is the initial book in a new series.All of the above books feature a strong female protagonist who has the training and personality for extraordinary action. The 2-book series is set in a time period roughly corresponding to the latter part of the 20th century. In that series the female protagonist succeeds in a rough selection training process to join an elite group of individuals who are assigned, for limited periods, as personal guards to key individuals in government, industry, etc. The new series is, in my view, a more mature application of the ideas in the first series. The setting is now in a future of multiple star systems, with our chief character being a member of an elite mercenary military that accepts contracts in different star systems. Our female protagonist exhibits out-of-box thinking in handling the different assignments.I intend to preorder the second book as soon as it is released for ordering here on Amazon.