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Description edit
Army Officer. Fugitive. Sorcerer. Across the country and in every nation, people are waking up with magical talents. Untrained and panicked, they summon storms, raise the dead, and set everything they touch ablaze. Army officer Oscar Britton sees the worst of it. A lieutenant attached to the... read more
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Summary edit
Characters contain magic abilities.
Characters edit
- Oscar Britton: Protagonist. African American soldier who manifests latent magical powers. He is coaxed into the shadow ops organization.
- Harlequin: Aeromancer
- Fitzsimmons: Chief Warrant Officer; aka Fitzy.
- Simon Truelove: a Necromancer
- Sarah Downer: Elementalist
- Marty: a goblin.
- Richards: a Whisperer.
- Crucible: Add a description of this character.
- Swift
- Salamander
- Wavesign
- Therese Del Aqua: Physiomancer
- Tsunami
- Scylla
Setting & Locations edit
- United States: Continent
- Shelburne
- Kiowa
- Vermont: State
- New York City: City
- Sass
- Sorrahhad
- South Burlington
First Sentence edit
They want me to kill a child, Lieutenant Oscar Britton thought.
Table of Contents edit
Flight
Chapter I : Assault
Chapter II : Loss
Chapter III : The Other Side
Chapter IV : Homecoming
Chapter V : Flight
Chapter VI : You Ran
Chapter VII : Gone To Ground
Chapter VIII : Trespasser Contractor
Chapter IX : You‟re Hired
Chapter X : Pack Out
Chapter XI : Hot Lz
Chapter XII : Shadow Coven
Chapter XIII : Fitzy
Chapter XIV : Suitability Assessment
Chapter XV : Practice
Chapter XVI : Scylla
Chapter XVII : Research
Chapter XVIII : Worm
Chapter XIX : In the Hole
Chapter XX : Small Victory
Chapter XXI : No Way Out
Chapter XXII : Do Some Good
Chapter XXIII : Unconvinced
Chapter XXIV : The Body
Chapter XXV : Raid
Chapter XXVI : Decisions
Chapter XXVII : MESCALERO
Chapter XXVIII : Oplan
Chapter XXIX : Release Little Bighorn
Chapter XXX : Escape
Chapter XXXI : Last Stop
Chapter XXXII : A Safe Place
Chapter XXXIII : Betrayed
Chapter XXXIV : Last Stand
Glossary edit
- Latent: Any individual who possesses magical ability, detected or otherwise.
- Selfers: Latent individuals who elect to flee authority and use their magical abilities unsupervised. Selfers are usually tracked down and killed.
- Probes: Short for “Prohibited.” Those Latents who Manifest in a school of prohibited magic such as Negramancy, Portamancy, Necromancy, or Sentient Elemental Conjuration.
- Sorcerer: A SOC magical operator—an officer of the SOC who employs magic as his primary military specialty.
- Suppression: The act of using one’s own magical current to block that of another.
- KIA: Killed in Action.
- Elementalist: A person practicing the prohibited school of Sentient.
- Whispering: Terramantic magic used to control the actions of animals. This is prohibited by the U.S. Code. S.O.C. Terramancers are not permitted to Whisper.
- Witch: Selfer slang for a Negramancer. Male Necromancers are sometimes called Warlocks.
Themes & Symbolism edit
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 2 in Shadow Ops (Myke Cole). (standard series)
Followed by Shadow Ops: Fortress Frontier.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Ace
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 31, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-937007-24-9
Page Count: 400
Publisher: Ace
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 31, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-937007-24-9
Page Count: 400
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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