SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW: Combat K 4: Cloneworld - Andy Remic

Release Date: 03/03/11

SYNOPSIS:

Junks, an ancient evil alien scourge, are flooding Quad-Gal with terror as they spread their toxic plague. Combat K, proficient in infiltration, assassination and demolition, are sent on a mission to find an elusive alien retrovirus which can be used against an enemy. SLAM-dropped to CLONEWORLD, a planet ravaged by violent civil war, not only are Combat K hunted by elite junk assassins, but they get caught in a global conflict between ORGS, huge augmented mechanised war machines, and GANGSTERS, slick, genetically modified humans who have the ability to ganger, or clone themselves at will.

Through a mash of constant battle and vast, war-torn landscapes, through mechanised ORG factories and G.U.N. workshops, through GANGER SlushPits and CloneCities and SexVats, Combat K must think and fight their way to victory, to save the planet, and save the Four Galaxies. But how can Combat K possibly succeed, when their main foe are their own elite and deadly clones?


REVIEW:

Andy is one of those authors that treads the fine line of twisted combat junkie and action obsessed nut job as he cluster bombs the readers brain with seriously hard-core fight sequences, devilishly complex missions and finishes it with a cocktail of fully formed characters, full throttled adrenaline, seat of the pants rocket fuelled plotline and twists it off with few drops of Nitro-glycerine as he shakes this mix and waits for the explosion as Combat K face off against the greatest threat imaginable, themselves.

It’s definitely a new outlook and with each of the characters having a nightmare of a story struggling to survive it does leave you wondering where he can go from here. Prior to this, I have called him either a genius or a madman, and the way that this f-bombed outing seems we can firmly state that Solaris has him safely under lock and key awaiting the next manuscript. I just hope that they’ve managed to keep the chemicals away from Andy as otherwise he may well escape in a MacGyver inspired Haggis manner and then who knows what will happen.