Escalation

Maelstrom Rising Series, Book 1

By: Peter Nealen

Narrated by: Steve Marvel

A Storm Is About to Break....

The mission was straightforward enough. Infiltrate civil-war-torn Slovakia, rescue the hostage, then get out undetected.

Except that it's not Matt Bowen's first rodeo. He and his teammates know well just how badly things can go once the metal meets the meat.

But even these hardened combat veterans aren't ready for what's about to go down....

A coordinated surprise attack. Massacres in the countryside. The next world war might have just kicked off, in a storm of blood, fire, and betrayal.

©2019 Peter Nealen (P)2019 Tantor

great action

great series s o far the narrator was accomplished and believable. I enjoyed the book.

Meh

Just one more book in this genre that is a thinly vailed right wing political screed masquerading as a novel.

There used to be great stories in the military thriller genre like Team Yankee that avoided the political lecture and just told a great story.

This novel is a dystopian future where a PMC is fighting against former NATO allies who have formed a globalist alliance against nationalist forces in Europe. The American military has been too infiltrated with godless liberals so a Christian PMC has been charged with doing the hard wet work. All the right notes to give right wing fascists a serious boner and feed into their delusions of persecution. Just check out the 5 star reviews and you'll see what I mean.

There are some interesting projections on the evolution of military tech that are in line with real world experimental kit. I just would prefer my military fiction without the political BS.

Not good

The story started ok but when it got to the part of the mixed group of women in the group of soldiers that really put me off and now going to delete both books from my library.
It would have been ok to do a soft touch on mixed groups but it went a step too far in pointing out being light weights and getting pregnant.
Thanks bud as I was trying to hang in the moving passed this but nope couldn’t do it .

Addictive, informative, and realistic

Once you get started you won’t be able to stop. The world Nealen builds is so close to our own; drawing on the very real strategic and social tensions present in the world currently. This plays out like a commentary on things to come; almost predictive in a nature as though someone asked for the realistic worse case scenarios. Also it’s great tactical porn; you can tell there is someone with experience behind this.

Great Story

Good story, from another viewpoint of veterans who continue to serve their country in civilian roles in a hostile environment.