When we last saw our heroes, Captain John Duggan and his crew were in prison on the Ghast’s planet, awaiting execution for spying. Luckily for them the Confederacy has a super secret super spy ship with a super secret cloaking device. The new ship’s captain is able to rescue Duggan and company.
Now, as with most science fiction, you don’t want to look too closely at this. How did the spy ship captain know when and where the Ghast would take Duggan and company? How did they hang around a very tightly defended world for hours? days? waiting for the Ghast to move the humans out of their confinement? Just ignore the problems implicit here and go along with the story.
Duggan is assigned once more to a risky, death-defying mission, this time to bring peace back to humans and Ghast, prevent the Ghast from destroying a human planet, while finding out as much as possible about the Dreamers. Once more the bean counting Military Asset Management is there, making trouble.
Fires of Oblivion is a novel you must simply read without asking too many questions or looking too deeply into plausibility. Just enjoy. The plot is grand and filled with action, making all the books in this series very fast reads.
There is slightly more character development in this installment but the overall story is still Duggan and crew vs. the Ghast, human politics and Dreamers.
4 Stars
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