Embracing the Suck
(2026)(The third book in the Chisolm's Black Sheep series)
A novel by Blaine Lee Pardoe
When the going gets tough, the bad boys go pro.
The Marine Corps is standing up an all-ASHUR unit, and the personnel tapped for Raider training are none other than Chisholm’s Black Sheep—former prisoners, unorthodox operators, the men the Corps would usually prefer to forget than promote. But the war is on and MARSOC does not have time to care about their reputation. It only cares whether they can survive selection, earn the Raider tab, and then graduate ASHUR school without getting themselves, or anyone else, killed.
Turning the unruly into an elite force requires more than leadership and skill. It takes audacity... and a dangerous amount of luck. By the time they deploy to Louisiana, the Black Sheep are armed, armored, and still raising hell. Dropped into a lethal combat environment where the Fish are evolving, a new militia is writing its own rules, and an old rivalry is waiting to settle accounts, the Marine Corps itself cannot agree on the best way to use them.
Deadly new aliens, a war that does not look like the last one, and a unit built from the Corps’ leftovers all collide in the swamp. The Black Sheep have one last chance to prove they belong... or to live down to every expectation ever written about them.
The rousing conclusion to the Chisholm’s Black Sheep trilogy.
Genre: Science Fiction
The Marine Corps is standing up an all-ASHUR unit, and the personnel tapped for Raider training are none other than Chisholm’s Black Sheep—former prisoners, unorthodox operators, the men the Corps would usually prefer to forget than promote. But the war is on and MARSOC does not have time to care about their reputation. It only cares whether they can survive selection, earn the Raider tab, and then graduate ASHUR school without getting themselves, or anyone else, killed.
Turning the unruly into an elite force requires more than leadership and skill. It takes audacity... and a dangerous amount of luck. By the time they deploy to Louisiana, the Black Sheep are armed, armored, and still raising hell. Dropped into a lethal combat environment where the Fish are evolving, a new militia is writing its own rules, and an old rivalry is waiting to settle accounts, the Marine Corps itself cannot agree on the best way to use them.
Deadly new aliens, a war that does not look like the last one, and a unit built from the Corps’ leftovers all collide in the swamp. The Black Sheep have one last chance to prove they belong... or to live down to every expectation ever written about them.
The rousing conclusion to the Chisholm’s Black Sheep trilogy.
Genre: Science Fiction