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  • Deathtrap

  • Expeditionary Force Mavericks, Book 1
  • By: Craig Alanson
  • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
  • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (568 ratings)

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Deathtrap

By: Craig Alanson
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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The human soldiers stranded on the planet Paradise have been recruited into an alien legion to do the dirty jobs that the high-tech species won't do. Their first mission is to kick the enemy off a backwater planet no one cares about. It's a simple assignment, except everyone has a hidden agenda, and the planet could become a deathtrap.

©2019 Craig Alanson (P)2019 Blue Heron Audio

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This is a amazing divergence from the Exforce core story

This latest book by Craig is fantastic!The storyline is very clever and left me hanging out for the next installment! I highly recommend any space sci-fi genre lovers to pick up the Expeditionary Force series I have not been disappointed with any of the books I think 8 in total so far. The Mavericks as an off shoot series sounds promising and if this first book is to go by then I am very excited about what Craig has in-store! Hopefully his wife will come up with more chores like cleaning the garage out to motivate him to carry on and produce more amazing works!

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Love it!

Another great side story to Expeditionary Forces going into more of a story line for the Mavericks. Colourful and fantastic writing. Can’t wait for more!

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Great storyline

Love the rollicking story and narration. The highlight of this book for me though is the sarcastic humour delivered by all characters. Even for an Australian I could contextualise pretty much all the punchlines. The only small downside is that occasionally the description of plot background info gets a too detailed, slowing up the pace of the narrative.

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the awesomeness goes on...

the universe which Craig Alanson has built for expeditionary force clearly still has plenty of potential for more action and adventure, and Deathtrap looks like the maverick series will have just as much of the awesomeness as the expeditionary force series.

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excellent and enjoyable

you will only understand this if you listen to the authors voice at the end. i cleaned out the garage listening to this first instalment or pissibly spin off from expeditionary force. so far i have listened to all the series in 2 weeks so yes it kept me wanting more. looking forward to the next two instalments of borh series.

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spin off

Great story, take the leap. works just as well as skippy books, brings a new dynamic.

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Better than ever

Firm fan here of the whole series
I buy them as soon as they are out
Relistened to them all
I really like where this story is heading

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It's not the same without Skippy the Magnificent

Awesome, very clever, slow start, fast paced, not as granduous as the books of the band of the merry pirates. At the start it felt like it was a completely different author.

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Audacious offshoot bullseye

An impressive storyline as enjoyable as any skippy story.
Great characters who relate well and interact in a believable manner with a great story line. R C Bray also gives his usual outstanding audio performance.

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enjoyed the easy reading and flowing story

loved out the narrator was great especially nertd voice story followed great escape from life

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