From Goodreads:
ORIGINAL
TRADE PAPERBACK. A chaplain serving in Earth's space fleet is trapped behind
enemy lines where he struggles for both personal survival and humanity's
future.
The mantis
cyborgs: insectlike, cruel, and determined to wipe humanity from the face of
the galaxy.
The
Fleet is humanity's last chance: a multi-world, multi-national task force
assembled to hold the line against the aliens' overwhelming technology and
firepower. Enter Harrison Barlow, who like so many young men of wars past,
simply wants to serve his people and partake of the grand adventure of military
life. Only, Harrison is not a hot pilot, nor a crack shot with a rifle. What
good is a Chaplain's Assistant in the interstellar battles which will decide
the fate of all?
More than he thinks. Because while
the mantis insectoids are determined to eliminate the human threat to mantis
supremacy, they remember the errors of their past. Is there the slightest
chance that humans might have value? Especially since humans seem to have the
one thing the mantes explicitly do not: an innate ability to believe in what
cannot be proven nor seen God. Captured and stranded behind enemy lines, Barlow
must come to grips with the fact that he is not only bargaining for his own
life, but the lives of everyone he knows and loves. And so he embarks upon an
improbable gambit, determined to alter the course of the entire war.
Torgersen has written a Military
Science Fiction book that features a different way to end a war. Harrison Barlow is a Chaplain’s
Assistant who does not believe in religion. What he does is fulfill a promise to the dying Chaplain and
everything unfolds from there.
There are some familiar things in
the story. The aliens are
all-powerful and resemble super strength bugs. They have killed off two other races. Humanity is on the ropes and in danger
of being exterminated. What saves
the human race is the big difference in the story. The Chaplain’s War is well written and tightly plotted. It is also filled with interesting
characters both human and alien.
I like stories that are more than I
expected and this fits the bill. The Chaplain’s War is an interesting story
with an unusual twist.
Baen published The Chaplain’s War
by Brad R. Torgersen in 2014.
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