Cover of Cry PilotB
FinishedDecember 16, 2020
GradeB
GenreScience Fiction
PublisherPenguin, 2019
★ Review · December 16, 2020

Cry Pilot

by Joel Dane


Solid sci-fi. Interesting world and premise. Fast moving plot.

Publisher Description

A devastated Earth. Rogue bio-weapons. And a recruit with secrets. In this explosive new military science fiction novel, a tight-knit infantry squad is thrown into battle against a mysterious enemy that appears without warning and strikes without mercy. There's only one way for a man with Maseo Kaytu's secrets to join the military: by volunteering for a suicide mission as a 'cry pilot'. He cheats the system to survive, but you can't fake basic training. Assigned to a squad of misfits, Kaytu learns how to fight, how to obey, and how to trust. Yet the more he bonds with his fellow recruits, the more he risks exposure of his criminal past. Keeping his secret is about to become the least of his problems. Kaytu discovers that his platoon is being deployed against a new kind of rogue bio-weapon. One that has torn apart every military force it's ever faced . . . .

Where this fits · 2020 reading log
Book 38 of 2020 · the 11th Science Fiction read of the year.