The Ghost Brigades

The Ghost Brigades

infobox Book
name = The Ghost Brigades
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image_caption = Cover of first edition (hardcover)
author = John Scalzi
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country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Tor Books
release_date = 2006
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
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isbn =
preceded_by = Old Man's War
followed_by = The Last Colony

"The Ghost Brigades" is the second book by John Scalzi set in the "Old Man's War" universe. Other books by John Scalzi are "Agent to the Stars" and "The Android's Dream".

Plot Summary

The main character in this narrative is Jared Dirac. He is instilled with the consciousness of a traitor, Charles Boutin, and has to deal with memories of a life he hasn't lived, while trying to find out who he really is himself. Jared is a member of the Special Forces, also known as "The Ghost Brigades". Jane Sagan and Harry Wilson are the only primary characters returning from "Old Man's War".

Universe

All of the colonial defense forces are given genetically altered bodies with all sorts of upgrades, but it is the special forces that really get the most out of them. These soldiers are born into these bodies, and only through their "BrainPal" do they know what to do. This universe is a hostile place and these upgrades are the bare minimum the CDF can give them just to hold their own. Travel in the universe is done by skip drive, an instantaneous means of transportation.

ee also

*Old Man's War
*The Sagan Diary
*The Last Colony
*Zoe's Tale
*John Scalzi


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