Republic Command: Triple Zero A2

Chris Merrick
A2
Triple Zero
Karen Traviss
330 pages

**** really liked it.

Like it's prequel, Hard Contact, It is a great book. It also takes place during the Clone wars, and has all the things that make Star Wars great. Plus it has even more explosions, humor, and romance than Hard Contact did.

It takes place primarily on Coruscant, which is called triple zero. It has the clone squad and Etain back, plus two other squads, and their training sergeants. Their mission is to destroy a Separatist terrorist cell that's hidden on Coruscant. Along the way, they get three new Allies: a GAR treasury officer named Bessany, a Twi'lek cook named Laseema, and a clone trooper called Corr. They end up retrieving a large amount of explosive to "sell" to the terrorists, make it unstable, kill the terrorists, and make some extra money on the side, and all at the same time!

Like Hard Contact, there's a lot involved. It can be easy to get lost, especially since you want to look ahead to see what happens. A lot happens, so it keeps you hooked. You just never want to put it down. It's a really good book.

' Fi strode up to Atin and grabbed the datapad from his hand.
" A strange blue woman with no taste in men wants to see you," he said. "Go on, Laseema's complaining you haven't said hello to her today."' -chapter 15
' The line of the shoulder looked unnaturally square where the ball of the humerus had shifted out of the socket and was pushing the deltoid muscle up and out of shape. This was going to hurt.
"Ok, on the count of four," Fi said. He took Sev's wrist in his right hand, stretching out the arm, and braced his left hand against the man's chest. Then he paused and looked him in the eye in his most reassuring I-know-what-I'm-doing way. "See, when you get a dislocation like this, you have to do what they call reducing it by- Four!"
Sev yelped. The joint made a wet shhhlick sound as it slipped back into the socket.
"Sorry, Ner Vod," Fi folded Sev's arm back against his chestand held it there while he struggled to get the sleeve section reattached. He could almost feel the torn ligaments and muscle fibers screaming. Sev's face was white, his lips compressed. "Nothing worse than bracing for it, though.
"For a moron, you're not a bad medic."' -chapter16

The reason that I liked these parts is because they are funny. Fi, one of the clones, loves to joke, even if it could get him beat up. Like I said before, this book has a lot of humor in it. There's lots more, but these are my favorites.