I can't get past a 20 - 30 something year old Marine calling her commanding officer, general, and father, "Daddy" in front of her unit. Just no... ( )

Trail of Evil , Tau Ceti Agenda by Travis Taylor. This book continues Taylor’s tradition of fast paced action adventure military science . The book follows the story of Moore family featured prominently in the other 3 books of the series. Although this is a standalone novel it would be helpful if the reader had a passing knowledge of the prior books. Do a quick Google or Bing, or Amazon search and read the reviews. The book continues the story of the Alexander Moore ex president of of the solar system,and former Marine and his family.The events begin 6 years since the end of the Separatist War. The war which began as a revolt on Mars In One day on Mars, continued on Tau Ceti system in the Tau Ceti Agenda and came to its conclusion back in Earth’s solar system in One Good Solider . Moore who has secrets that even the current President isn’t privy to, asks for use of a decommissioned super-carrier to mop up the remaining pockets of resistance left over from the Separatists Wars. His true agenda is to track down the source and purpose of the alien signal. This is the same signal that is believed to have been received by the Separatists before the end of war by the terrorist leader of the Separatists and unbeknownst to all but a few ex President of the solar system Moore's ’mother. Alexander Moore with his now grown daughter, and fellow Marine pilot, wife and a select crew leave the solar on this grand quest. This quest lies at the heart of this story and will lead to events that will pave the way to what should be an exciting sequel. This story is a good summer read with space battles, strange technology and plans within schemes, sealed in mysteries and locked with great cliff hanger ending . Despite that at times the story was kinda boring and flawed. I hated the extensive use of military abbreviation ’s without the benefit of glossary to remind the reader what they stood for. The science explanations soon degenerated into technobabble, which ironically one of characters mentions, Taylor’s habit of switching between characters personal name and their combat call sign was distracting and took away from stories overall impact. ( )