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A review by tome15
Fire with Fire by Charles E. Gannon
3.0
Gannon, Charles E. Fire with Fire. Tales of the Terran Republic No. 1. Baen, 2013.
Charles E. Gannon is an active member of Baen’s stable of military science fiction writers. This is the first volume of a five-year-old, seven-book series in which dangerous humans and dangerous aliens wage several kinds of multi-sided war and espionage. Caine Riordan, a journalist-analyst, is drawn into a first-contact mission on which learns some things that are too hot to handle. He is tossed into suspended animation freezer for 12 years and spends most of this novel trying to recover memories the lost in the freezing process. This espionage plot is quite good, but the novel degenerates into rather routine space-battle action with some military characters so clichéd that It does not bode well for the rest of the series.
Charles E. Gannon is an active member of Baen’s stable of military science fiction writers. This is the first volume of a five-year-old, seven-book series in which dangerous humans and dangerous aliens wage several kinds of multi-sided war and espionage. Caine Riordan, a journalist-analyst, is drawn into a first-contact mission on which learns some things that are too hot to handle. He is tossed into suspended animation freezer for 12 years and spends most of this novel trying to recover memories the lost in the freezing process. This espionage plot is quite good, but the novel degenerates into rather routine space-battle action with some military characters so clichéd that It does not bode well for the rest of the series.