{"id":77045,"date":"2015-06-23T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=77045"},"modified":"2015-06-23T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T14:07:14","slug":"virtues-of-war-by-bennett-r-coles-exclusive-extract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/books\/virtues-of-war-by-bennett-r-coles-exclusive-extract\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtues Of War by Bennett R Coles exclusive extract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Chapter-5-scifiNow.docx\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-77047 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Virtues-Of-War-616x961.jpg\" alt=\"Virtues Of War\" width=\"616\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Virtues-Of-War.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Virtues-Of-War-600x936.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Virtues-Of-War-300x468.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a>Acclaimed military SF novel <strong><em>Virtues Of War<\/em> <\/strong>by Bennett R Coles is&#xA0;released by Titan Books on 26 June and we have an exclusive extract! Just click on the cover above&#x2026;.<\/p>\n<p>&#x201C;The Terran military, the Astral Force, launches a mission to crush a colonial rebellion on the Centauri colony. Although Expeditionary Force 15 succeeds, the surviving veterans remain scarred&#x2014;physically and emotionally, and the consequences of their actions follow them back to Earth when terrorists seek to exact catastrophic revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Katja Emmes is a platoon commander, leader of the 10-trooper strike team aboard the fast-attack craft Rapier. Although fully trained, she has never led troops in real operations before, and lives in the shadow of her war-hero father. Sublieutenant Jack Mallory is fresh out of pilot school, daydreaming about a fighter pilot position in the space fleet. He is in for a rude awakening. Lieutenant Commander Thomas Kane uses a six-month deployment in command of Rapier is to secure his rise to stardom within the Astral Force. He also plays the subtle politics of the military.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Virtues-War-Astral-Saga\/dp\/1783294205\/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1435068269&sr=8-1&keywords=bennett+r+coles&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy Virtues Of War for &#xA3;7.99 at Amazon.co.uk<\/a>. Keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3628\/s\/scifinow-issue-107\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&utm_medium=cover&utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read an exclusive extract from acclimaed military SF novel Virtues Of War by Bennett R Coles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":77049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1624,1718],"tags":[4552,2247,4551],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Virtues-Of-War1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}