GET READY… Able-Bodied Soldier is back!
Our protagonist Titus Briggs returns, sporting emotional baggage that would require additional fees on most airlines. He's older! He's wiser! He's absolutely horrified by the MOCOM program's increasing reliance on technology that's approximately one firmware update away from gaining sentience and demanding employee benefits!
But wait—there's more! We've introduced Erik Canyon, an Orbital Ranger who represents Briggs' road-not-taken after his book one injuries. Picture the physical embodiment of “what could have been” strutting around in front of Briggs like a peacock with impeccable posture. J.N. Chaney and I thought, “What's more fun than crushing a man's spirit with a living reminder of his shattered dreams?” Spoiler: Briggs develops feelings about this that fall somewhere between “homicidal rage” and “complicated man-crush.”
Here's what the back cover says, which I'm legally obligated to include despite my overwhelming urge to replace it with knock-knock jokes:
Suit up and move out.
Ten years after saving humanity from the Thephari threat, legendary MOCOM instructor Titus Briggs discovers his elite pilots are failing against an enemy that's learned their weaknesses.
When a grizzled Ranger Staff Sergeant with uncanny tactical brilliance reminds Briggs of his own infantry roots, they forge an unlikely alliance that challenges the technological superiority the MOCOMs have come to rely on.
With time running out to stop a devastating anti-MOCOM weapon from deployment, Briggs must remember who he was before the machines—a soldier who succeeded not because of technology... but despite its absence.
Step back into the critically acclaimed Able Bodied Soldier series from USA Today Bestselling authors J.N. Chaney and Jason Anspach in this exciting fourth entry.
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In related news, my subscribers received beta copies approximately seventeen minutes ago and are now experiencing temporal whiplash from how quickly we've gone from “Are you sure colonels call corporals, ‘Babe?’” to “Please exchange currency for this product!”
Able-Bodied Soldier 5 is already slouching toward publication. Subscribe now, unless you enjoy waiting for things like some kind of patient, well-adjusted person!
This is awesome news! Can't wait to pick up a copy.
Any idea when Big Trouble in Little Earth will see print?