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    The Caledonian Gambit: A Novel

    By Dan Moren

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    In this “immersive, intergalactic spy-fi,” two rogue agents go after a top-secret super weapon—“A Cold War thriller with wormholes” (John August, screenwriter of Titan A.E. and Big Fish).
     
    The galaxy is mired in a cold war between the Illyrican Empire and the Commonwealth. Thrust between this struggle are Simon Kovalic, the Commonwealth’s preeminent spy, and Kyle Rankin, a lowly janitor happily scrubbing toilets on Sabaea, a remote and isolated planet. However, nothing is as it seems.
     
    Kyle Rankin’s real name is Eli Brody, and he fled his home world of Caledonia years ago. Kovalic knows a top-secret Illyrican superweapon project is hiding in Caledonia. He also knows that the past Brody so desperately abandoned can grant him access to people and places that are impenetrable even for him.
     
    Now Brody and Kovalic are on a mission fraught with dangerous unknowns, guaranteed to tip the scales of galactic peace. Sounds like a desperate plan, sure, but what gambit isn’t?
     
    The Caledonian Gambit is a throwback to the classic sci-fi adventures of spies and off-world politics—“a wisecracking caper that nevertheless doesn’t skimp on the details and human cost of interstellar war, like John Le Carré meets The Stainless Steel Rat.” (Antony Johnston, author of Atomic Blonde and The Coldest Winter).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 23, 2017
    ISBN9781940456850
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    Dan Moren

    Dan Moren is the author of several novels, including the many entries of the Galactic Cold War series, as well as a freelance writer and prolific podcaster. A former senior editor at Macworld, he now covers technology at Six Colors. His work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, Popular Science, and Fast Company, among others. He co-hosts tech podcasts Clockwise and The Rebound, writes and hosts nerdy quiz show Inconceivable!, and is a regular panelist on the award-winning pop culture podcast The Incomparable. Dan lives with his family in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he is never far from a set of polyhedral dice.

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      I really wanted to like this. The plot was entertaining and constantly moving. But the characters were one dimensional. Snark is not a personality. Definitely a debut book that could have used more development. And a different motivation for one of the MCs - the fridging trope was never good.