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Best Military Fiction books of 2014 Military fiction is a subgenre that is just plain awesome cool. I think you as a guy must think back of time you were playing soldier when you read some of these books. When you think of military the first thought that you will have will be of big armies clashing or at least I had that when I first started reading Military fiction, though I had to throw this thought away quite quickly as the modern day Military Fiction is more aimed towards specialized units in current day or in the future. Which brings me to the following books. Reign of Evil by Weston Ochse is a display when the supernatural hits Earth and the last line of defense is a Seal Team specialized in quelling this threat. Reign of Evil is already the third installment in the series and is really the best so far. Weston Ochse involves a lot of military aspects in his writing, full gear lay down and tactics, very detailed and gives a great reading experience. Control Point by Myke Co...

Review Round-up September Here is my selection of the books that I most enjoyed in September, which were your favorites? Cheers, Jasper ------------------------------------------------------ 1. Age of Iron by Angus Watson, Orbit   From the start of Age of Iron , Angus Watson got my attention. This was just the book I was looking for, I hadn’t read such a story in a long while, it’s dark, gruesome Epic Fantasy. Given the day and age wherein the story of Age of Iron takes place around 40AD this whole dark setting definitely works it’s wonders and made me see several scenes quite vividly, especially  the fighting scenes. The build up of the story with focussing on every character individually then letting the story all converge into something much bigger was done in a clever way that with even though you were given a lot of information, about them all,  it was all easy to digest, which was needed given the fact that it has a pretty high page count. Orbit h...

Control Point by Myke Cole, Shadow Ops #1 Army Officer. Fugitive. Sorcerer. Across the country and in every nation, people are waking up with magical talents. Untrained and panicked, they summon storms, raise the dead, and set everything they touch ablaze. Army officer Oscar Britton sees the worst of it. A lieutenant attached to the military's Supernatural Operations Corps, his mission is to bring order to a world gone mad. Then he abruptly manifests a rare and prohibited magical power, transforming him overnight from government agent to public enemy number one. The SOC knows how to handle this kind of situation: hunt him down--and take him out. Driven into an underground shadow world, Britton is about to learn that magic has changed all the rules he's ever known, and that his life isn't the only thing he's fighting for. I have had my eye on this book for a while now, a very very long time. Too be honest I have postponed reading the book because the intr...

(p)review forecast September part 1 Here is my selection of what I will be reading in the coming two weeks, what is your selection? Cheers,  Jasper 1. Age of Iron by Angus Watson, Orbit Bloodthirsty druids and battle-hardened Iron Age warriors collide in the biggest epic fantasy debut release of 2014. LEGENDS AREN'T BORN. THEY'RE FORGED. Dug Sealskinner is a down-on-his-luck mercenary travelling south to join up with King Zadar's army. But he keeps rescuing the wrong people. First, Spring, a child he finds scavenging on the battlefield, and then Lowa, one of Zadar's most fearsome warriors, who's vowed revenge on the king for her sister's execution. Now Dug's on the wrong side of that thousands-strong army he hoped to join ­- and worse, Zadar has bloodthirsty druid magic on his side. All Dug has is his war hammer, one rescued child and one unpredictable, highly-trained warrior with a lust for revenge that's going to get them all kill...

Author interview with Myke Cole I have heard a lot of praises for the works of Myke Cole but like many many other books I just haven't had the time, yet, to get around them. Military Fiction is a genre that I have been steadily exlporing and I have found it definitely to my liking, so now it's time to get reading these three well received books of Myke Cole. The reviews of Control Point, Fortress Frontier and the to be published Breach Zone will be featuring on the blog soon! Author bio: As a secu­rity con­tractor, gov­ern­ment civilian and mil­i­tary officer, Myke Cole’s career has run the gamut from Coun­tert­er­rorism to Cyber War­fare to Fed­eral Law Enforce­ment. He’s done three tours in Iraq and was recalled to serve during the Deep­water Horizon oil spill.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Myke, welcome to The Book Plank and for taking your time to answer these few questions. BP: Fir...