Mission: Nemisis is the final book in James’ Survival series, a story about humans fighting for their lives against two advanced alien races. Captain James Duggan has helped humans make peace and ally with the first race, the Ghasts. Now he leads the joint effort against the far deadlier threat, the Dreamers.

Captain Duggan leads because he is effective. His superiors continue to throw ever-harder missions at him, and this one is the hardest and riskiest yet. Captain Duggan is to destroy the wormhole that allows the Dreamers to access our territories.

As is true with all 7 books in this series the novel is short, 276 pages, and a very fast read. It took me less than 3 hours to get through Mission: Nemisis. I would have far preferred the author to combine the 7 novels into 4 or 5. The very first novel in the Survival series stands alone but none of the others are self-contained. Each flows into the next with almost no segue pieces that would anchor readers who might have a lag between novels and need a bit of reminding of the preceding story.

Book 7 has a little more character development than do books 2-6, but read this for the plot and excitement.

4 Stars

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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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