Task Force 88

Gods of Justice

By: BJ Matthews

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

A planet in despair. An army being overrun.

When an invading clone army completely overwhelms and threatens total destruction on the planet Delpha, there’s only one group that can stop them. Task Force 88.

A highly skilled combat team of super soldiers, the Task Force Rangers are the planet’s only hope of survival. Outnumbered and facing near impossible odds against the clone army, the Rangers must protect three airfields until the United Planet Military Command can send in reinforcements. In addition, a rescue team must be dropped deep into the enemy’s lines to find and evacuate Dr. Laura Dunby, one of the UPMC’s top research scientists.

Three small squads against thousands. Will the Task Force be able to hold off the invading army? Or will the squads be sacrificed for the greater good of the UPMC?

©2023 BJ Matthews (P)2024 BJ Matthews

Not bad. Not great.

The basic story line was good military sci-fi (a battle between god and evil). And there is plenty of non-stop action.
However, the hero characters (good guys) are uniformly so one dimensional it was impossible to identify with or feel a connection with any of them.
Similarly, all we’re really told about the enemy (bad guys) is that they are little more than a mob of soldiers attacking a planet. No background or context is provided as to who the enemy’s leaders are, the evil reasons that motivated the leaders to order the attack (the good guys speculate on this but provide no clear or compelling reasons), etc.
So, what the book describes is a conflict between an attacking force and a defending force without a clear description of why the conflict is occurring. For these reasons, i found it difficult to engage with the story,