Tales of the E4 Mafia
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Featuring a story by Michael LaVoice.
They are specialists, corporals, and petty officers. They are the military personnel who have learned some leadership and gained expertise in their specialty. “Work smarter, not harder” is their watch phrase, followed by “If you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying”.
They are masters of avoiding work, getting up to shenanigans, and, when a mission needs to be completed or job done, it’s an E-4 that others turn to. They are the near mythical E-4 Mafia, and their ability to avoid work, solve problems, and create trouble is the stuff of legend.
Here are eleven stories of the E-4 Mafia in a variety of settings and situations that are sure to thrill and entertain anyone with an interest in military fiction, science fiction, a sense of humor and the curiosity to peek under the rug to see what got swept there when something needed done.
Home Fires Burning
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It’s not just a war. This time it’s personal.
The Dominion war machine was hurt with the destruction of its shipyard, and Kai Fletcher has given the galaxy a fighting chance. But no good deed goes unpunished.
The Dominion attacks the Dor’Anian planet of origin, and the Gensoon home world at great cost. The Regent, Corallus, thinks they have the Dominion on the ropes, and can’t spare anyone from the Armada to help Kai protect the next obvious and least defended target, Earth.
With the bad guys due any minute, and only two ships, Kai heads dirtside to convince the United States government to use all the alien tech they’ve been hiding from everyone since the 1940’s to save the world. That ends badly. Kai finds himself dealing with the threat alone, while being chased around his own home planet by just about every alphabet organization that he knew existed and a few he didn’t.
While on the run, he discovers a superweapon under development that could end the threat forever. All he has to do is steal it from under the noses of an ancient reptilian race that make the Laosorans look like choir boys. It might not be easy, but it’s the only shot they have to keep the Home Fires Burning, in the pulse-pounding conclusion to this rip-roaring galactic adventure!
Rebels Without a Pause
The enemy has joined forces. The galaxy is screwed...
Kai Fletcher, former criminal and current captain of a Gardranian Warship finds himself on the wrong side of a new empire as the Vakness and Kholdrax have combined strengths to become the Vakkhol Dominion.
Gardranian Warships are tough, but they’re outnumbered and it’s getting worse by the day. The Dominion has employed a shipyard to crank out hybrid tech designed to put a stranglehold on everyone. While the rest of the Gardranian Armada continues the search for their missing brethren, Kai hatches a desperate plan to destroy the shipyard and remove the Dominion's numerical advantage. For this to work, he must make allies of the very bad guys that kidnapped him to the stars in the first place, the Laosoran Crime Syndicates.
No easy task when a whole empire is gunning for him and he’s not even sure he can fully trust his only true allies, the Dor’Anian Union.
Public Enemy, Private War
The hunt is on in more ways than one.
Kai Fletcher, small-time criminal planner turned reluctant warship captain was drafted into a war older than him by several thousand millennia.
While the Kholdrax grow stronger, Kai and his small band of warships must find the remnants of the Gardranian Armada that didn’t awaken with the rest of their fleet. Opposed at every turn by awakening Kholdrax forces, the Vakness Empire, and the space cops of the Dor’Anian Union, Kai is forced to split his small group to better their chances of finding their missing comrades. To top it all off, his kid brother is along for the ride and causing all kinds of problems.
When anticipated allies become unexpected enemies and join forces with the long list of people already out to get him, it will take all of Kai’s courage and street smarts to survive.
Compared to this, his old life in Chicago’s South Side dodging crooks and gang bangers seems like playground antics.