Dinniman has a way of staying true to the heart of his story and maintaining the characters and their arcs while changing the setting and pacing for each book, keeping it fresh. Whereas the previous book was at battlefield scale, this one brings the story back down, grounds it while ramping up the pace. As much as I miss the calm moments in between the storms of action, those moments of reflection and loot box opening, the limited breaks in the action maintain the reader’s sense of tension so that you feel the pressure in a similar way that the characters do. And just when you think things can’t go more off the rails, well, you’ll just have to get to the end…