War of Alien Aggression 5 Cozen's War (19 page)

She placed one demi-ovoid from the suite of counter-surveillance devices on every bulkhead and activated them. It would defeat most known surveillance technologies. It would have been safer in Cozen's shielded cage, his 'skiff', but
Hardway's
old command tower had been cut away for replacement and Cozen's paranoia cage was gone.

Dana poured herself a drink and watched the surface go opaque as she brought it close to one of the devices. "They're working," she said. "How did it go back down on Earth? Getting debriefed by the Staas Company Board of Directors, I mean."

"Alright, I suppose.""

"What the hell did you tell them?"

"I blamed Harry Cozen," he said. "The Board of Directors liked that. It affirmed the statement they released for the benefit of the shareholders and the UN saying exactly the same thing."

"And the rest of it?"

"I didn't leave anything out. I told them the truth of what happened in its entirety. I told them how the emissary Thrall killed Harry Cozen and how it said the Ortani Imperium would now be coming to take revenge on Humanity for destroying the Squidies."

Her head canted a few degrees as if she was confused. "But I was there and..." Dana turned and looked up at him then. He knew what she was about to say.
She was about to say it was all a lie.
Ram Devlin pulled her to him and kissed her long and deep before she could speak the truth.

The War of Alien Aggression

Books 01-05 (Complete)

All five books in
The War of Alien Aggression
in a single volume - the war with the Squidies from the first engagement to the final detonations.

640 pages, 192K words, $2.99

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Hardway

Intelligent life reaches out to Humanity using particle beam weapons and masers. The pilots and crew of the carrier
Hardway
are first to fight in the conflict that quickly escalates from a bloody first contact to a full-scale, interstellar war. Ram Devlin knows he and the rest of Humanity may have been tricked into engaging in a war that didn't have to happen. The verity of the history being written is in doubt, but the survival of his crew and the very future of mankind is at stake.

41K words, 137 pages

Kamikaze

The privateer attack carrier
Hardway
invades Procyon to destroy an alien blockade gun meant to keep the human race confined.
Hardway
and her pilots meet their match in the Squidies' massive gun and the alien aces that protect it until they discover why the aliens are beating them.
Hardway's
officers must commit to paying for victory in war's only true currency.

28K words, 96 pages

Lancer

Privateer Admiral Harry Cozen needs pilots for an experimental fighter squadron, so he offers the inmates of Bailey Prison a deal. Colt is serving 5-7 and he knows the deal is too good to be true, but he still takes it. He and the rest of the C-Block nuggets learn to fly the new F-151 Bitzer and prepare to sortie against alien aces on a mission far more dangerous than anyone's telling them.

35K words, 117 pages

Taipan

The privateer attack carrier
Hardway
is drafted into a force group commanded by Harry Cozen's bitter rival from Staas Company. She stole his fighter program and his thousand new pilots. Now, she's determined to use them as cannon fodder. Nobody can argue with her battle record, but the officers and crew of
Hardway
and the Lancers of the 133rd Fighter Test Squadron may be all that can keep her pilots alive in a knife-fight deep behind enemy lines.

61K words, 203 pages

Cozen's War

The Staas Privateers and the UN fleet have brought the fight to the Squidies' home system. The massive Earth invasion fleet faces off against every ship the Squidies' can muster. Harry Cozen is in command and this is his greatest gambit, but alien propaganda threatens to reveal the war's greatest secret on the very day the broadest and bloodiest battle of the conflict unfolds. Knowing how thin the margin is between victory and defeat, Ram Devlin races to the Squidies' homeworld moon with a weapon of mass destruction that could end the war in seconds. Humanity must win, but the price of victory may be a thousand more years of war.

39K words, 131 pages

About the Author

A.D. Bloom types loudly on a 1998 IBM M13 mechanical keyboard (13H6705), prefers writing on vertical monitors, and claims he’ll make portable aerial radar from a $12 usb radio dongle when he’s done with his current project.
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