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Brigand's Choice: A Privateer's Legacy (The Afterwar Saga Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Jamie McFarlane (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.6 491 ratings

Book 1 of 3: The Afterwar Saga

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Chasing his twin sister through an unstable wormhole connects Quinn Hoffen with long-lost family struggling to overcome unscrupulous brigands…

When a fishing trip on the Gnard Sea of Grünholz ends in catastrophe, Jennifer James is pronounced lost at sea. But, when evidence of foul play is uncovered by her persistent son, the family will have to choose if they’ll risk everything and go against the growing corruption within their home of Neo Firma.

Knowing better than to blame fate on his arrival on Neo Firma in the middle of his long-lost family’s crisis, Quinn Hoffen will have to make a hard decision. Will he follow in the footsteps of his outsized parents and set himself against the evil before him? Does he measure up against his father’s greatness? Or will he lead his friends to disaster and destroy a family struggling to simply survive.

Brigand’s Choice is the first book in an action-packed, space opera series. If you like high risk, high adrenaline gambits, clever twists and turns, and heroes who don’t have everything figured out just yet, then you’ll love Jamie McFarlane’s fast-paced science fiction adventure.

Buy Brigand’s Choice to help Quinn knock back the brigands who would seek to rule the day!

The Afterwar Saga is an independent series set in the Privateer Tales universe.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BL8NK31H
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fickle Dragon Publishing LLC; 1st edition (February 1, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3816 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 411 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #146,113 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,573 in Military Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #1,983 in Science Fiction Adventure
- #3,037 in Military Science Fiction (Books)

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Jamie McFarlane is a graduate of Colorado School of Mines with a Master of Science in Mathematics. An avid reader, tinkerer, woodworker and metal sculptor, Jamie is just as likely to be seen smelting aluminum cans in his garage as he is tacking random, discarded iron objects into a small army of beasties that adorn his home’s landscaping.

Jamie’s writing career began as something of a dare which later turned into a tribute. In his late teens, Jamie was well known as the family story-teller, spinning fanciful yarns about ordinary events, usually with the objective of escaping well-deserved trouble. One day, his mother, often the target of his mischievous tales, challenged him to commit his words to writing. Jamie promised he would but time passed, as did his beloved mother. In 2014, Jamie made good on his promise and published his first book.

Jamie is the author of a growing library of novels and novellas of military science fiction titles including Junkyard Pirate and the Privateer Tales series.

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Mr. DDB

McFarlane always delivers!

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2023

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This was a fun read, with well designed characters, and lots of action. The story developed naturally, and the challenges increased as it progressed.

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Victoria Muterspaugh

Good light reading

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2023

Easy reading that held interest through entire book. Good guy Characters a little to G rated but OK. Author books follow same pattern and make good light reading

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2023

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Just like Rookie Privateer years ago, McFarlane takes readers on a compelling journey that is not only for the reader but the characters as well. They get to know each other as the reader does and you end up feeling like another of the characters and are along for the ride. That this ties in with the older story is just icing on the cake of a wonderful story that stands on its own. I'd clean the septic lines in a 150 year old ship without a shower available if it would get the next book into my hands sooner.

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BillL41

Adventure and danger.....

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2024

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A young adult tale of adventure and danger when sent into a Wormhole. Different people and culture, along with discovering new friends.

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Another great series and worth the time to read

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2023

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I'm amazed that this author can write so many fantastic novels, I hope that he never stops writing. His books are some of the best Entertainment I have read and worth the time to read them. Thank you for a very fun entertaining read.

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Keith

alien callings, super humans and worm holes

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2023

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The title tells a lot of the story. Now add pirates, thugs and off world individuals and you have the start to a great series. Thanks for the fun read!

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2023

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The twin children of the famous Hoffens are on a rescue mission through multiple wormholes to reach the Milky Way galaxy with the help of best friend and fellow racer Adeline "Addy" Chen Hill. Chased by a trio of pirate spaceships, they successfully outrun them to land on a starship pad near the city of Neo Firma. There they meet a mountain of muscle and bone named Cassius James and his aunt Celina Dontal. As it turns out, they're family, of sorts, through the man they'd called "Uncle Nick" their whole lives! Celina and Cassius's mother, Jennifer James, had been a part of the senior Hoffens' saving the universe from an alien invasion. Now it's the twins' turn!
Through their unique abilities gained when the alien race, the Iskstars, had enabled their barren mother to get pregnant, Quinn, Liv and Addy help rescue Jennifer from pirates.

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2023

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This series is about the Hoffen twins and their friends. A well written plot with interesting characters and lots of action. A great story.

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Foursuns

It gets better later.

Reviewed in Canada on August 26, 2023

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This story is a side-bar continuation of the Privateer series which Mr. McFarlane ended on a high note with a great story. As I read this story, I also read that the author wondered why this beginning of an associated series was not selling so well. I now believe that thhe reason is partly that this almost fits a Youth category book in that character development is simplistic and you need to have read the previous series to better understand what is going on. There are also a couple of paragraphs where it is difficult to tell who is speaking, making things a little confusing.

Another reason the plot is annoying early on is that the author has the characters jumping through a wormhole into another galaxy without more of a description of how their technology works, and more description about why Olivia has this compulsion to run away through a restricted wormhole, making the reader say, " oh yeah, this is just a writer's trick. The telepathic connection between brother and sister also seems too contrived.
That being said, the second half of the book picked up the pace, and the characters became more interesting. However, the author still likes to drop new tricks such as the hand blaster shot deflector, and the appearance of Privateer series technical genius just at the right time to make the next plot sequence work without the hero getting killed. It may not have sold as well because the plot was too contrived. Still, I enjoyed Mr. McFarlane's other books, and started to like the characters in this book, so I'm hoping the next one will be better.

Nigel Frankcom

A good start

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2023

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I started this book, thinking it would be a rehash of the previous Liam Hoffen stories. Happily, it is not.

The main protagonists still manage to get themselves into as much, if not more trouble than their parents, providing an entertaining story with some great characters.

I enjoyed it.

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