![]() ![]() Grayson's task is simple he's got to land a small crew on a forbidding moon to see if there's anything there to eat. ![]() This is likely (although one suspects not) the last book in this series, which begins with the brave crew of an Avenger-class starship way out in the back end of beyond, with no support and everyone on board eating recycled everything. Grayson is humble, loyal, makes mistakes, and fights as hard as he can for humanity. He starts out the series as a punk kid in the mean streets of Boston, and rises through an extraordinary series of miserable failures and ridiculous successes to being a major in an elite combat unit, battling against the "Lankies," impossibly big and tall spacefarers with out-of-this-world (heh) technology that lets them move onto whatever planet they like and crush everyone and everything that's in their way. ![]() The single nicest thing about the Frontlines series is that you never, never, not even once have that problem with Andrew Grayson. I just finished THE MAGICIAN KING by Lev Grossman before reading this, and the number-one complaint you get from people who've read those books is that the protagonist is just an awful person and nobody likes him. ![]()
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