Sinclair's Scorpions

The Omega Wars, Book 5

By: PP Corcoran

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

The Omega War is in full swing. Earth has fallen to General Peepo’s army, and the surviving human mercenaries have taken refuge at the hidden Winged Hussars’ base in New Warsaw.

As humanity begins to think about how to recover the planet, one thing is obvious - more powerful weapons of war will be needed in the effort. One of the keys to recapturing Earth will be the Raknar of Cartwright’s Cavaliers, but the power sources of many of the giant mecha have become unusable over the course of history.

More are needed, and Alistair Sinclair knows someone who may have a line on where to get them...a secret Science Guild base where they’re being developed for the Mercenary Guild to power the Raknars Peepo has been collecting.

While the Four Horsemen try to hold back the Mercenary Guild forces, Alistair volunteers his Scorpions to track down and bring back the power sources the Raknar need for the assault on Earth.

The Scorpions operate by guile, not overwhelming power, but will guile be enough when all the forces of the Mercenary Guild are arrayed against them?

©2019 PP Corcoran (P)2019 Podium Audio

The mighty Sinclair......!!

Great continuation of the omega war story line, plus more Intel on Sinclair's Scorpions and the sacrifices they endured to get the batteries the four horsemen needed to get a solid foothold on the war.

I’d go to war with these Scorpions any day!

Outstanding clan! The Author definitely knows the military jargon that catches and adds to the realism of the story. I could imagine and visualize exactly what was being done by all of the characters, whether in the middle of combat or in times of happiness or grief.
Job well done, from writing to performance!

Another book, another author

While I enjoyed PP Corcoran's writing and even a great deal of the story, it is another tangential book to the main series which was a bit disappointing. Even while the character and world building was well written and defined, the book had left several things dangling, presumably, to tie into the main series at some later point in the series.

Pros:
- character and world building
- battle encounters where most of the protagonists died which added realism to what was supposed to be an impossible task
- one of the MCs also died further adding to the story's credibility
- The introduction of the brutal and massive Jivool who appear to be an analog to the Halo Brutes
- The narrating performance of Todd McLaren again adds to the listening pleasure of the book

Cons:
- Jamie Sinclair’s mission left untold
- Charlie Sinclair's return to Earth left open-ended.

I was pulled from the story by lazy writing

I can forgive the physical training scene that was described in the beginning of the book because it builds the camaraderie of the unit in a way. I really don’t think that’s how the camaraderie should’ve been built though. Especially if they’re an unit that specializes in deep operations and going undercover and getting into places that other people can’t. I think maybe a unit espionage type game would’ve better and more succinctly described how close they are.

But what really turns me away from this book was the scene in the bar where Alistair met Oren. I’m sorry, but if your unit is this top-notch cracking infiltrator type unit, you aren’t gonna have someone mess up and call you by your rank when you’re trying to infiltrate somewhere. I know it was trying to build tension in the scene, it wasn’t well thought out.

Overall, the story was pretty good. I think Sinclair‘s scorpions could have been written better and more true to who and what they do. A lot of time was spent describing how they work in small units. But yet here you have them fighting a large battle. Just really didn’t make sense. I think this entire book can be summed up in another book in a paragraph or less to describe that they got the parts they needed to get.