ASK ME FOR ANYTHING BUT TIME…By award winning author Chuck Dixon, (Yes, the same Chuck Dixon who co-created the character Bane.)You don’t punch a cocktail waitress around Dwayne Roenbach, not even if you are his wealthy mogul boss.Unfortunately, said boss got him blacklisted for actions that Dwayne knew were entirely appropriate of a retired US Army Ranger.Now, a phone call from a mysterious … entirely appropriate of a retired US Army Ranger.
Now, a phone call from a mysterious benefactor wants Dwayne to pull together a team to help rescue scientists who are lost.
With the kind of money he’s being offered he only asks a couple of questions to make sure the job is legit.
Perhaps he should have asked a few more.
This Epic Adventure spans multiple time periods, gun battles with creatures and people all over the world as well as up and down history as they battle to do what is right.
No matter if Hell is there to greet them in the end.
Bad times or not, these Rangers have no ‘quit’ in them. Everyone and everything needs to get the hell out of their way.
They have mission(s) to complete.
Go up and click ‘Read For Free’ or ‘Buy Now’ and dig into an adventure that will have you hearing the sounds of the past, while smelling the gun powder as the team fights across the world,and time.
A FEW QUOTES ABOUT CHUCK DIXON:
“Chuck is a damn good writer who is really good at hooking you, giving you fun characters, and
telling you one hell of an adventure story.”
Larry Correia, Monster Hunters International, the Grimoir Chronicles
“An intelligent and well thought-out high action time travel story.”
Noah Mullette-Gillman, Luminous and Ominous
“Dixon excels at putting down action, of introducing larger-than-life heroes, kicking them through the
door into a big mess, and having them sort out a situation in a flurry of martial arts moves and big
guns.”
Mel Odom, The Rover series.
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So, does anyone remember Michael Crichton’s book Timeline? It was turned into a film with Gerard Butler, before 300? Timeline was about a Bill Gates knockoff whose company has created a time machine… only he’s lost people in the Middle Ages, and recruits a team to go back, find his lost people, and bring them back. This being a Michael Crichton book, the first thing that happens is that the security personnel are killed, leaving only the time period specialists to survive.
Give a similar premise to Chuck Dixon, legendary comic book author and co-creator of the Batman villain Bane, and Dixon turns it into a multi-book series where the SpecOps badasses are the primary leads, and a quarter of the book feels like the team from Predator has to fend off the hordes of Mordor.
And that’s only book 1
Also, Dixon doesn’t use anywhere near the number of graphs as the venerable Crichton.
Former army Ranger Dwayne Roenbach has left his last job as security for a billionaire with a temper. But he’s soon recruited by scientist Morris Tauber. He’s lost his sister and two of his colleagues. And he would like Dwayne to go and bring them back. The catch? Tauber’s sister is lost in the Nevada Desert, 100,000 years in the past.
Dwayne is skeptical, but for $10 million, he can be flexible.
It’s 100,000 years in the past, meaning that no humans live in the region. It should only be populated by oversized fauna. And that assumption was their first mistake.
The characters here are all well drawn, and fairly effortlessly at that. Every main character gets a chapter to themselves, and each one is sketched out in only a few paragraphs. Focusing a chapter on each person is a standard formula, akin to introducing the gunfighters in The Magnificent Seven. But Dixon manages to take the formula, and apply it in a unique way that doesn’t make it feel like a formula. The five Ranger shooters and the two Tauber siblings are all smart, likable characters, and a joy to read.
Funny enough, I just counted the main characters, and there are seven of them, so Dixon has hit the magic number.
There are even two bit players in the story who are almost comedy relief, but who have a surprising amount of character.
Dixon has a wonderfully visual writing style. Everything he needs to put on the page are on the page. Extraneous details are fodder for other books. Everything you need to know about the time travel device is spelled out … mostly by the presence of two Iranian nuclear physicists with a penchant for current Vegas performers. When the book goes back in time, we get a very clear picture of the time period. Let’s just say that “nasty, brutish and short” is not the name of a law firm.
This book is written in such a nice smooth straightforward style that it’s downright refreshing. There are no Ciceronian sentences that run half a page. Nothing is overly technical, but neither does Dixon talk down to the audience. Everything here is just so well thought out and well reasoned, but nothing is over-technical. I especially enjoyed what they go through to leave no impact on altering the timeline … and have just as good reasoning on when that can go out the window.
This book is “only” 206 pages, but I guarantee you will not feel cheated. At all. It’s awesome.
If you’re a fan of any media referenced in this review, you’re probably going to enjoy it. It has Larry Correia level gun porn. It has Zulu-level odds. Frankly, it’s just plain fun.