{"id":1367,"date":"2018-08-26T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2018-08-26T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T01:00:47","slug":"running-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/running-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dark Run<\/em><\/a>
\nMike Brooks<\/a>
\nSaga Press
\nPaperback $16.99
\nEbook $7.99<\/p>\n

This is space opera adventure the way it’s supposed to be done.<\/p>\n

What’s that? Oh, you want details.<\/p>\n

Okay.\u00a0 Here’s the skinny.\u00a0 Ichabod Drift is the captain of a tramp freighter, the Keiko<\/em>, which does occasional side jobs, such as helping capture certain lawbreakers.\u00a0 For a fee, of course.\u00a0 When he and his crew aren’t breaking the law themselves, of course.\u00a0 Or even when they are.<\/p>\n

After a successful bounty hunting job (detailed in the opening chapter), Drift runs into an old friend.\u00a0 And by runs into an old friend, I mean that some henchpersons grab him and take him to see a former employer,\u00a0 chap named Kelsier.\u00a0 Kelsier used to be a high ranking government official in one of the three remaining political entities on Earth.<\/p>\n

These political entities each have their own systems and colonies they control.\u00a0 Drift, under a different name, used to work for Kelsier, usually doing his dirty work.\u00a0 A job went south, the former identity supposedly died, and Ichabod Drift was born fully formed.<\/p>\n

Now Kelsierr has fallen from grace.\u00a0 He wants drift to transport a set of containers to Earth and deliver them to a scientific conference on a certain day and time.\u00a0 He’s willing to pay an obscene amount of money for this and consider all debts paid.<\/p>\n

Or else he’ll tell Drift’s crew who he really is.<\/p>\n

Drift doesn’t have much of a choice.\u00a0 If the galaxy discovered he was still alive, it would be a toss up who would kill him first.\u00a0 But it’s just a simple delivery, after all.\u00a0 What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n

Pretty much everything, it turns out.\u00a0 Fortunately, Drift isn’t the only member of the Keiko<\/em> who is hiding a secret.<\/p>\n

Brooks tells a fast paced tale, where nearly every chapter ends with a cliff-hanger.\u00a0 This is a good thing.\u00a0 The pace rarely flags.\u00a0 Which is not to say the characters are from Central Casting.\u00a0 The Keiko<\/em>‘s crew are a diverse and somewhat eccentric bunch.\u00a0 In other words, they’re interesting, fun, and you quickly grow to care about them.<\/p>\n

This is the way space opera should be done.\u00a0 There are two additional books in this series.\u00a0 I’ve already bought them, and I will be reading them.<\/p>\n

Dark Run<\/em> is highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dark Run Mike Brooks Saga Press Paperback $16.99 Ebook $7.99 This is space opera adventure the way it’s supposed to be done. What’s that? Oh, you want details. Okay.\u00a0 Here’s the skinny.\u00a0 Ichabod Drift is the captain of a tramp freighter, the Keiko, which does occasional side jobs, such as helping capture certain lawbreakers.\u00a0 For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[841,759],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-opera","tag-mike-brooks","tag-space-opera"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-m3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}