Swords and Saddles Audiobook (Free)

Swords and Saddles is a must-listen collection of 3 novellas from New York Times bestselling writer Jack Campbell.

The Rift: Answering a distress call from a colonized planet, a combat team finds themselves ambushed. They manage to scrabble their method to a remote control research facility in the countryside, signing up for a group of schoolchildren that have holed up with the researchers-three groups united in dread that their lives can last only as long as they can prevent discovery by the aliens that have about Swords and Saddles arrive to their globe.

Swords and Saddles: When lightning strikes Captain Ulysses Benton and his U.S. Cavalry Fifth Regiment, they recover to discover an ancient framework in the desert that they’ve never seen before-and composing in a vocabulary none of them recognize. It quickly becomes apparent that wherever it is they are, it isn’t 1870s Kansas.

Failure to Obey: When Lieutenant Jen Shen saves the day after a terrorist strike on a space station, she gets a medal, but Ivan Sharpe, a fellow official and Paul’s former master-at-arms, gets a court martial. Within a traditional court martial scene that rivals the very best in American books, Paul has to work behind the moments to save Ivan’s military profession.