Bayou Renaissance Man: Well said!

Bayou Renaissance Man: Well said!:   I said last Friday that "If President Trump had won re-election in 2020, he would never have had the same impact as he's had this year".  I know many have said something similar; it's not an original insight. However, I've never seen it better expressed than by William E. Wolfe on X:"

GO READ THIS ONE. You'll be glad you did. :)

Peter Grant's New Book Out Today!

"The Stones of Silence", Peter Grant's (aka Bayou Renaissance Man) new book, the first volume in the "Cochrane's Company" trilogy, is now available in e-book format on Amazon.com.

Volume 2 of the trilogy, "An Airless Storm", will be published in June, and Volume 3, "The Pride of the Damned", in July. And all three books will be published in print format in about three months' time.

Peter Grant's new e-book on Amazon

The secret is out – the Mycenae system is the hottest new mineral find in the spiral arm. Now it’s about to become ground zero in a gold rush by every crooked company and asteroid thief in the galaxy. 

Andrew Cochrane, with his crew of the finest veterans and cunning rogues, have an even better scheme. They’ve conned the owner into hiring them as a mercenary security company to defend the system. With no oversight but their own, Cochrane’s Company plans to seize the richest pickings for themselves. 

But nothing ever comes easy. If they want to keep their loot, they’re going to have to outwit and outfight every smuggler, bandit and renegade after the same prize – and their boss, too!

I have the privilege to be one of Peter's proofreaders, and WOW is this trilogy good. Highly recommended!

New Book

My friend Peter Grant (also known as Bayou Renaissance Man) has his second Western book out.
You'll like it, I promise!

What's it about? I'm glad you asked:

In the post-Civil War West, the railroads are expanding, the big money men are moving in, and the politicians they are buying make it difficult for a man to stand alone on his own. So, Walt Ames moves his wife, his home and his business from Denver to Pueblo. The railroads are bringing new opportunities to Colorado Territory, and he's going to take full advantage of them.

 

Ambushed on their way south, Walt and his men uncover a web of corruption and crime to rival anything in the big city. And rough justice, Western-style, sparks a private war between Walt and some of the most dangerous killers he's ever encountered, a deadly war in which neither friends nor family are spared.

 

Across the mountains and valleys of the southern Rocky Mountains, Walt and his men hunt for the ruthless man at the center of the web. Retribution won't be long delayed... and it cannot be denied.

Book Review: "War To The Knife"

Online Dictionary defines "war to the knife" as "mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity."

Peter Grant (all y'all know him as Bayou Renaissance Man) has drawn on his own combat experience to create this story in the same universe as his first three novels (The Maxwell Saga: Take The Star Road, Ride The Rising Tide, and Adapt and Overcome).

War to the Knife starts out like an episode of Firefly, a familiar-enough setting: small frontier town, rough-and-rugged individuals, on an occupied planet. There are veterans of a recent war, occupying forces, and enough injustice to start the war back up again.


Soon the scope widens as we meet more people, and the reader comes to realize that it's a planet-wide scenario - and the veterans are the backbone of the Resistance.

But there's a problem: the occupying force has nearly exterminated the people of this planet, to take their natural resources. The remnant of survivors in this battle for survival are outnumbered, and out-gunned, and nearly out of options. They decide to fight back with everything they have in one final, decisive battle, knowing that many of them will not survive.

The characters are real, the action fast-paced, and the plot compelling. The phrase "page turner" gets over-used, but you can trust me on this: you won't want to put it down until you find out what comes next.

Book Review: "Ride The Rising Tide"

Peter Grant ("Bayou Renaissance Man") has published his second novel, Ride The Rising Tide.

To quote from the Amazon's description of the first book in the series, "Take the Star Road":

"Nineteen-year-old Steve Maxwell just wants to get his feet on the star road to find a better homeworld. By facing down Lotus Tong thugs, he earns an opportunity to become a spacer apprentice on a merchant spaceship, leaving the corruption and crime of Earth behind. Sure, he needs to prove himself to an older, tight-knit crew, but how bad can it be if he keeps his head down and the decks clean?

He never counted on the interstellar trade routes having their own problems, from local wars to plagues of pirates - and the jade in his luggage is hotter than a neutron star. Steve's left a word of troubles behind, only to find a galaxy of them ahead..."

I wrote briefly about the first book, here. It was a great read, but I'm here to tell you that Ride The Rising Tide is even better.

The writing is tight, the descriptions are vivid, personalities are realistic - and even though much of the second novel is about Fleet training and Officer Candidate School, it's a fast-paced, exciting read.

The author is a military man, and the realism taken from his personal experiences shines through on every page. I found myself drawn in, remembering my own U.S. Navy training. It got so real for me that I went from just reading about someone's adventures, to the feeling that I was there, looking over the protagonist's shoulder.

It will keep you riveted until the final page, and wanting more. There's no better praise for an adventure novel than that!

Ride the Rising Tide (Book 2 of The Maxwell Saga)

I recently reviewed Take the Star Road by Peter Grant whom many of you know better as Bayou Renaissance Man, and whose blog appears on the sidebar here.

The e-book of the second novel in the series is now available on Amazon, here. The first volume was a fantastic read from a 'new' author (although he's been writing for years, this was his first published novel).

If you don't discover this series, you'll regret it. Good stuff!