Black Trident

By Martin Grise

Taiyari has eight weeks, at best, to save her lover from his boyhood dreams.In the mid-21st century, insurgencies and civil unrest stemming from climate change have created a boom for private military corporations. Caden Duran, clawing his way out of an abusive childhood, hopes to rise through the well-paid ranks of a PMC and become one of the world's elite soldier-celebrities. Now, battling an insurgency in Colombia, Caden finds himself on the fast-track to admiration and wealth. He is participating in a field promotion campaign, where PMC officers compete for promotion to colonel in the course of a single contract. The problem is that, to win the contest, officers must demonstrate their efficiency by completing their combat missions with the smallest number of men and assets. This makes it harder to win their battles - and even survive them. As the campaign progresses, the officers, including Caden, take ever-more audacious risks in the field, and it is clear that someone will eventually miscalculate, overreach, and most likely pay with his life.Caden once saved Taiyari's village from a murderous cartel; since then, she has tried to convince him to leave this life of legal contract killing before his luck runs out. But in Colombia, she hears disturbing rumors of what Caden has done to civilians in his obsessive pursuit of victory. Uncovering evidence of war crimes would hardly be easy, and even less palatable, but Taiyari is not the type to accept a pretty lie. Her investigation comes to a head at the very moment the field promotion campaign reaches its knife-edge climax, and it is obvious that everyone involved will have to pay a price for their dreams.This novel is for hardcore military sci-fi / speculative fiction fans, for readers who enjoy futuristic weapons and innovative tactics as much as a love story; this is "The Wild Geese" meets "Mission Impossible" as David Drake might write it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B092PGCQ1D
• ISBN13: 9798738766961
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"