THE NOVA INCIDENT - Dan Moren


 It's the Galactic Cold War (book three) and as one might expect with a cold war, there are twists and turns and spies in all the politics.

A terrorist attack has struck the Nova capital. Kovalic and team are under a lot of pressure to find out who did it and put a stop to any future terrorist attacks. But with every thread of evidence they follow, new threads appear and the whole thing is getting bigger and bigger and they can't help but question everything they've been led to believe to this point.

The whole team, including the new member, Addy Sayers, takes their work seriously and won't let up until it's resolved, but the resolution doesn't look like it's anything they were expecting - and that scares them.

Author Dan Moren has written a fast-paced spy thriller in space with this book.  The previous two books in the series (whole number books ... I see there are book #'s 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3) were also thrillers, but this seems to take it a step further, perhaps because of all the secret threads that need unravelling.

Like the other books, I enjoyed this a lot.  I never expected to find a political/military scifi book something I would like, but the thriller aspect really steps it up, making this a page turner.  

But it's the characters who really make this book the enjoyable read.  Moren has done a wonderful job of giving us characters that we can relate to.  Characters that we like and that we want to see succeed. And characters that are unique - not just from one another, but from other scifi characters.  If this is your first read in the series you won't know it, but we've seen these characters grow over the course of the books. They've become tighter as a unit which makes the events here that much more interesting.

Looking for a good book? The Nova Incident by Dan Moren is a fast-paced scifi thriller with a strong set of characters.  It is the third book in The Galactic Cold War series, and is a very compelling read.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

4 stars

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The Nova Incident

author: Dan Moren

series: The Galactic Cold War #3

publisher: Angry Robot

ISBN: 9780857669452

paperback, 408 pages

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