Review: Fine military science fiction with four soldiers instead of an entire starship troop to do battle.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 10, 2013
I enjoy this tongue in cheek military science fiction or action-based or mechanical exo-skelton type action with four well trained elite special forces unit members. The descriptive genre could fit all three or just one. All of them from the Alpha Platoon, Moth Team Seven. Moth stands for MObile Tactical Human. They are tactician, corpsmen, snipers, astronauts and commandos types who are ready to do battle with quick operations of surgical precisions in tough places. This is a short story about one of their assigned missions. Nick names or callsigns like their leader known as Facehopper, with the heavy gunner nicknamed Big Dog,and Facehopper's two snipers known as Trace and Ghost off to accomplish an operation against the most infamous privateer. His name was Mao Sing Ming. He captured passenger liners for salvage killing off the entire crew for just kicks. The story was an one person narrative much like Starship Troopers from Robert Heinlein. The difference was the story was less descriptive and a faster pace into action. The story got into action once closer to their destiny of the half squad crew of these elite forces. I found one typo and a well paced story, which I would want to read more from this author.