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The Aleph Extraction
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Aboard a notorious criminal syndicate's luxurious starliner, Commonwealth operative Simon Kovalic and his crew race to steal a mysterious artifact that could shift the balance of war...
Still reeling from a former teammate's betrayal, Commonwealth operative Simon Kovalic and his band of misfit spies have no time to catch their breath before being sent on another impossible mission: to pull off the daring heist of a quasi-mythical alien artifact, right out from under the nose of the galaxy's most ruthless crime lord.
But their cold war rivals, the Illyrican Empire, want the artifact for themselves. And Kovalic's newest recruit, Specialist Addy Sayers, is a volatile ex-con with a mean hair-trigger who might put the whole mission at risk. Can Kovalic hold it all together, or will the team tear themselves apart before they can finish the job?
File Under: Science Fiction [ Simon Saves | 2.7 Kelvin | Spy-Fi | Kovalic’s Five ]
Still reeling from a former teammate's betrayal, Commonwealth operative Simon Kovalic and his band of misfit spies have no time to catch their breath before being sent on another impossible mission: to pull off the daring heist of a quasi-mythical alien artifact, right out from under the nose of the galaxy's most ruthless crime lord.
But their cold war rivals, the Illyrican Empire, want the artifact for themselves. And Kovalic's newest recruit, Specialist Addy Sayers, is a volatile ex-con with a mean hair-trigger who might put the whole mission at risk. Can Kovalic hold it all together, or will the team tear themselves apart before they can finish the job?
File Under: Science Fiction [ Simon Saves | 2.7 Kelvin | Spy-Fi | Kovalic’s Five ]
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“I am thoroughly enjoying this scifi series. (Be sure to start with the Caledonian Gambit.) This particular book is suspenseful. The team is dealing with past missions (so read these in order) and their impact on this one, breaking in a new team member, etc. This one really left me hanging in the end - I can't wait for book 4! (Language, fighting/violence)”
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“The Aleph Extraction is the second book in the scifi spy thriller series The Galactic Cold War. The Special Projects Team is still off balance after losing a member in the previous book. Now, Simon and his team are tasked with retrieving a possibly alien artifact from a notorious gangster before it falls into the hands of their rivals in the Illyrican Empire. Simon hopes that recruiting ex-con military washout Addy could be an asset to their team given this mission, but planning a heist while holding his splintering team together is harder than he thought.
This is a very fast-paced and fun thriller with a Ocean’s Eleven-esque central heist. I always love heists so this felt like a fun adventure. It’s exciting, easy to read, and entertaining throughout. Compared to the first book, I’d say this also has a stronger science fiction feel to it with more tech and science-y sequences, but fewer spy/undercover ops elements given the heist storyline. It also doesn’t have the prolonged set up of the first book and mostly jumps right into the meat of the story with brisk pacing.
With the addition of the new character Addy, the book ups the PoVs to three with Simon and Elijah carried over from the previous book. I don’t know if I needed a new team member as I feel like I still don’t quite know the present small team all that well as it is, but adding the hot-tempered Addy does allow both Simon and Eli to show new sides of their characters. Simon as leader is buckling under the pressure of the secrets he has been keeping (especially that one twist from the previous book that I am now starting to think may be a misdirection). Though many of his plans are failing, he still demonstrates competency and leadership by how he responds to it. Even with Eli no longer being the newest member, he still has many insecurities and questions surrounding the man he has decided to follow. I’d love to pull on that thread more, but it is being teased out slowly.
The Aleph Extraction is a fun, fast-paced heist thriller in a scifi setting.”
About Dan Moren
DAN MOREN is a novelist, freelance writer, and prolific podcaster. A former senior editor at Macworld, his work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Macworld, Popular Science, Yahoo Tech, and many others. He co-hosts tech podcasts Clockwise and The Rebound, writes and hosts nerdy quiz show Inconceivable!, and appears on the award-winning The Incomparable. Dan lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he plays ultimate frisbee, video, and tabletop games.
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