Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Gabriel's Redemption
    Gabriel's Redemption
    Gabriel's Redemption
    Ebook273 pages4 hours

    Gabriel's Redemption

    By Steve Umstead

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Reviews

    "A cast of interesting and believable characters and a plot that kept me turning the pages, wondering what was going to happen next. I also enjoyed the author's take on technology and the political landscape of the future. Definitely recommended!" - Michael R. Hicks, bestselling author of the In Her Name science fiction-adventure series and the bestselling thriller Season of the Harvest.

    "Character-rich story, non-stop adventure (think Jason Bourne travels the stars). Completely immersive read." - R.B. Wood, author of the urban fantasy The Prodigal's Foole

    "The author weaves a futuristic action-adventure story full of twists and turns...rich in detail and full of advanced technology." - Debra Martin, author of the fantasy series Rule of Otharia

    Product Description

    GABRIEL'S REDEMPTION
    Book One of the Evan Gabriel Trilogy

    ***** “...the military fiction of Tom Clancy, the hardware of Heinlein's Starship Troopers, and the intrigue of Dan Brown.”

    North American Federation Navy Commander Evan Gabriel was dishonorably discharged after a disastrous mission on a far off world called Eden. He’s spent the last five years hiding from his past, from those responsible for the failed mission, from those responsible for running him out of the Navy, and from those originally responsible for making him into who he was – a highly-trained, physically and mentally augmented Special Forces soldier.

    Two mysterious visitors appear unannounced at the door of a Gabriel’s seedy hotel room in the slums of Jamaica. His past has finally caught up with him.

    From the decaying Caribbean to politically-charged South America, from the back alleys of Mars to a tiny colony on a planet six hundred light years from Earth, Gabriel's Redemption is a near-future military science fiction story of a personal journey seen from the perspective of a soldier who has lost everything -- one who desperately needs to redeem himself not only in his government's eyes, but also his own.

    Interstellar action and political intrigue mix with one-on-one battles on the surface of a frozen planet in Book One of the science fiction-adventure trilogy.

    Also available: Gabriel's Return (Book 2), Gabriel's Revenge (Book 3), Gabriel's Journey (complete collection) Approximately 66,000 words.

    * Second Round Qualifier in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest!

    WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT GABRIEL'S REDEMPTION

    ~"If John Scalzi and Tom Clancy got combined in a transporter accident a la The Fly....and I mean that in a good way.”
    ~“This series brings me back to the old days when Sci-Fi was about ass kicking, great friends, loyalty and action.”
    ~"If you enjoy a good dose of military hardware in your SF, well, wait'll you get a load of this book.”
    ~"Umstead has a way of putting you right into the scene, whether it be on a Jamaican beach, a rundown apartment or the icy surface of a distant planet."
    ~"The detail of the world-building pulled me in and made everything utterly believable."
    ~"Well-thought-out universe with a tightly woven history, timeline, and culture."
    ~"The author's imagination is amazing...he has knowledge of combat tactics, both with squads and hand-to-hand."
    ~"Umstead's writing is solid, as good as it gets, not only in the genre, but in general."
    ~"Umstead deals with issues like honor, responsibility and human nature. While deep in thematic content the forward thrust of the story never stops. "

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Umstead
    Release dateFeb 2, 2011
    ISBN9781452446929
    Gabriel's Redemption
    Author

    Steve Umstead

    Steve Umstead has been the owner of a Caribbean & Mexico travel company for the past ten years, but never forgot his lifelong dream of becoming an author. After a successful stab at National Novel Writing Month, he decided to pursue his dream more vigorously...but hasn't given up the traveling. Steve lives in scenic (tongue-in-cheek) New Jersey with his wife, two kids, and several bookshelves full of other authors' science fiction novels. More information is at SteveUmstead.com, and you can always find him on Twitter (@SteveUmstead).

    Read more from Steve Umstead

    Related to Gabriel's Redemption

    Titles in the series (3)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Science Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Next-generation Space Observatory

      Oct 6, 2021

      AS IT WRITE THIS, all is on track for a December 18 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST, named after an early head of NASA), the space observatory that will enable us to look back in time through the cosmos to earliest eras following the B

      1 min read

    • Article

      Fuel Of The Future

      Dec 31, 2019

      Fuel Of The Future
      2 min read

    • Article

      Rtx 4080

      Jan 31, 2023

      Rtx 4080
      11 min read

    • Article

      Movie Novels Are Still Around, And They Aren't All Trash — Just Ask The Chicagoans Who Wrote Them

      Apr 1, 2020

      CHICAGO - Recently, during C2E2 at McCormick Place, the Random House imprint Del Rey, which publishes Lucasfilm-licensed "Star Wars" books, made an unusual choice and offered the novelization of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" three weeks early. A

      9 min read

    • Article

      Atmos Only Knows

      Aug 8, 2023

      Atmos Only Knows
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Billion-Dollar Telescope Race: How three groups are competing to make the first extremely large telescope.

      Mar 13, 2014

      When Warner Brothers animators wanted to include cutting-edge astronomy in a 1952 Bugs Bunny cartoon1 they set a scene at an observatory that looks like Palomar Observatory in California. The then-newly unveiled Hale Telescope, stationed at Palomar,

      10 min read

    • Article

      They Got Their Show

      Aug 10, 2021

      It is midnight in Ponderosa and Nick Velasquez can’t sleep. The public doesn’t want him to sleep. It’s been like this ever since it hit all the big streaming platforms. The viewers stay up bingeing and he… well, he has been bingeing in his own way. W

      14 min read

    • Article

      Speedboat

      Mar 24, 2022

      Nobody died that year. Nobody prospered. There were no births or marriages. Seventeen reverent satires were written – disrupting a cliché and, presumably, creating a genre. That was a dream, of course, but many of the most important things, I fi nd,

      14 min read

    • Article

      Fitting In

      Oct 1, 2021

      Fitting In
      6 min read

    • Article

      Quotients

      May 7, 2020

      Quotients
      8 min read

    • Article

      Excerpt

      Dec 12, 2019

      He was an angry man, and he was an ugly man, and he was tall, and he was pacing. Not much space for it in the new home, just a few rooms lined up in a row, underneath a series of slow-moving ceiling fans, an array of antique clocks ticking on one wal

      4 min read

    • Article

      ‘Goodnight Stranger’: Featured Fiction from Miciah Bay Gault

      Jul 30, 2019

      An excerpt from Gault's debut novel, a literary thriller reminiscent of the work of Shirley Jackson and Henry James's 'The Turn of the Screw.' The post ‘Goodnight Stranger’: Featured Fiction from Miciah Bay Gault appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      “Really?”

      Jun 2, 2022

      “Really?”
      6 min read

    • Article

      Quantum Radio

      Feb 22, 2023

      Quantum Radio
      5 min read

    • Article

      HOUSE OF horror

      Jan 21, 2020

      HOUSE OF horror
      4 min read

    • Article

      It Happened to Me…

      Jun 16, 2022

      A genuine miracle occurred at the art opening of the Blinky 40th Anniversary Exhibition at California State University Northridge Gallery in Southern California on 2 February 2019. An artwork by Erika Ostrander of the “Shroud of Blinky” was found wee

      6 min read

    • Article

      It Happened to Me…

      Nov 30, 2023

      It Happened to Me…
      4 min read

    • Article

      Marco

      Mar 1, 2022

      THE ALLEY STANK . Marco could feel the damp soaking into his tunic as he pressed his back against the wall, trying to seem like part of the shadows. He cursed himself. How could he have been so stupid? He knew if he stayed out after dark they might f

      6 min read

    • Article

      Come with Me

      Dec 1, 2022

      Come with Me
      12 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Gabriel's Redemption

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Gabriel's Redemption - Steve Umstead

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1