About the AuthorLarry Correia is the New York Times best-selling creator of the Monster Hunter contemporary fantasy noir series, as well as breakout urban fantasy series the Grimnoir Chronicles. Correia is an award-winning competitive shooter, a movie-prop-gun master and an accountant by day but an urban noir adventure master by night. He is very bald and lives in Utah.An Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician in the US Air Force, Mike Kupari also served six years in the Army National Guard. He grew up in Michigans Upper Peninsula and enlisted at the age of seventeen. He has worked as a security contractor with several firms, did a tour in Southwest Asia with a private military company, and is an NRA certified firearms instructor. Mike is recently returned fromactive duty overseaswith the U.S. Air Force. what products are in high demand right now Swords of Exodus (Dead Six)
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. HookedBy Kindle CustomerI used to avoid series books. I saw them as marketing ploys designed to lure readers into spending money on badly written books. To some degree, I still feel that way. But after taking a chance on another series (NSS's "Extinction" books) -and now the "Dead Six" series as well- I've come to a new understanding. Series books satisfy readers who appreciate thorough character development and detailed stories; people who don't just read books, we INVEST ourselves in the stories. Series books also give authors (relatively) free restraint. They have time to flesh out themes and story lines to enhance the plot. Correia and Kupari have done just that in the "Dead Six" series. They've created a story with characters that even a cynic like me can care about. There is GREAT action, suspense, and even humor (Bob, Jihan's fortress = pins, needles, laughter). Sometimes the transition between authors was a little clunky , but not in a way that affected my overall enjoyment of the book. In fact, I bought the third book before finishing the second. Highly recommended!!4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Correia and Kupari knock another one out of the parkBy Tom RognebyLarry Correia and Mike Kupari have produced a sequel to their 2011 work, Dead Six, and its a roller coaster from start to finish.Swords of Exodus opens a few months after the close of Dead Six. Lorenzo, the master thief and assassin, has retired to what he hopes is comfortable obscurity, and Valentine, the soldier of fortune, is rotting in a government torture chamber after being snatched at the end of the first book. After the events of Dead Six, the criminal world has fragmented, and an exquisitely evil man has taken over a criminal territory in the border region of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and China, and Lorenzo and Valentine reluctantly join forces to help Exodus wipe him and his slave army out. I wont give things away, but the action starts early in the book and doesnt stop until the very end. We also get some more back story on Val and Lorenzo, which fills in the characters quite nicely.Like I said, this is a rollercoaster ride of a good yarn. You get a few pages of quiet, followed by 10 pages of action, followed by more quiet. The second half of the book is pretty much action to the very end. The book ends with two cliffhangers, which already has me convinced that I will be buying the inevitable third book. Honestly, I had to put the book down and stop from crying out when I read the last sentence. I just wanted the story to continue.One distraction in the books writing is what I call brand dropping. Rather than I pulled out my pistol and shot him twice in the head., at a few points in the story you read I pulled out my STI 9mm with the six-inch SilenceCo suppressor on it and put two Hornady TAP bullets into his brain. Both read well, but the authors put such references in just often enough for me to notice, but not enough to irritate.The first book set up the universe the story lives in, which is a decade after this one kind of place where the world has fractured and chaos makes live lucrative for people like Lorenzo and Valentine. The second book fills in some of the gaps on this world, but that leaves a lot more room for character development. The characters of Lorenzo, Valentine, and Ling fleshed out quite nicely through the course of Swords.One thing I like about both books is that I would feel comfortable lending them to my teenage daughter. Yes, theres quite a bit of blood and violence in them, but its not gratuitous, and while there is implied sex on a couple of occasions, its done tastefully and the story shifts away from it before it becomes too graphic.If youre looking for a great book to curl up with for a couple of evenings, and you like action thrillers, I think youll enjoy this one.9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Another can't-put-it-down read!By RMLarry and Mike have pulled off a difficult feat and topped Dead Six. This installment in the series is a wonderful trill ride that never stops. The world-building is excellent and I am able to easily immerse myself in the world they create. The action is great and the characters are believable and interesting.This is a must-read (but start with Dead Six first!).