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Captain James Heron: First Into The Fray
Prequel to Harry Heron: Into the Unknown
by Patrick G. Cox (Author)
$18.99
The year is 2202, and the recently widowed Captain James Heron is appointed to stand by his next command, the starship NECS Vanguard, while she is being built. He and his team soon discover that they are battling the Consortium, a shadowy corporate group that seeks to steal the specs for the ship’s new super weapon.
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The year is 2202, and the recently widowed Captain James Heron is appointed to stand by his next command, the starship NECS Vanguard, while she is being built. He and his team soon discover that they are battling the Consortium, a shadowy corporate group that seeks to steal the specs for the ship’s new super weapon. The Consortium hires the Pantheon, a mysterious espionage agency, to do their dirty work as they lay plans to take down the Fleet and gain supreme power on an intergalactic scale. When Pantheon Agent Bast and her team kidnap Felicity Rowanberg, a Fleet agent and friend of the Captain, this clash of titans becomes personal. Bast is an expert in bio-disguise and evades several traps as Fleet Security close in. The Captain honors his oath to the Fleet and his growing love for Felicity, and takes decisive action to thwart the Pantheon and protect Felicity at all cost. When you read the explosive final pages of Captain James Heron: First into the Fray, you will be on the precipice of where Captain Heron’s story picks up in Harry Heron: Into the Unknown, when he comes face to face with his twelve times great uncle Harry, who lands on the deck of the Vanguard in the year 2204 straight from a wooden wall sailing ship amid a sea battle with the French in 1804.
Publisher Name : Gray Monk Publishing
Publication Year : 2021
ISBN : 978-1946824882
Reader Testimonials / Reviews :
Grady Harp
5.0 out of 5 stars ‘Life was going to involve some difficult choices now’ - interplanetary journey to Mars and beyond
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2023
Format: Kindle
South Africa born author Patrick G. Cox earned his degree from Selborne College, served in he Fire Service in both South Africa and the UK, is a minister in the Church of England, and now writes novels - including his six volume Henry Heron Series, for which CAPTAIN JAMES HERON FIRST IN THE FRAY is the prequel. The series is a collection of books ‘centered on a trio of shipmates plucked from the HMS Spartan during the Napoleonic Wars and thrust into an unknown future.’ Pertinent to this volume is a brief reflection on the Into the Unknown volume the book serves to edify: - ‘A freak accident on board the HMS Spartan during a sea battle with the French navy in 1804 catapults Midshipman Harry Heron and his shipmates Ferghal O'Connor and Danny Gunn four hundred years into the future, landing them on the NECS Vanguard, flagship of the World Treaty Organisation Fleet. While Captain Blackwood and Major Heron sort out the mystery and determine whether the young men are alive or dead, Harry and his friends are faced with the challenge of learning new roles aboard a spaceship. Just as they have found their footing, they are called upon to assist the Fleet in a rescue mission on the planet Pangaea, giving them the opportunity to prove that their unique skills from the past are still very relevant in the far distant future.’
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