Ghost brigades
Ghost Brigades (Original title: The Ghost Brigades ) is a military science fiction novel by John Scalzi from 2007, which deals with the work and end of a deserter of the Colonial Defense Army . The title is taken from the plot in which special forces are called “ghost brigades”, which are bred from the DNA of the deceased.
Ghost Brigades is the second novel in a series after War of the Clones . This is followed by the novels The Last Colony , Between the Stars , The Last Unit and Galactic Mission .
action
The Colonial Defense Army (KVA) learns that Charles Boutin, a top scientist in the field of mind transfer, has become a traitor. He has formed an anti-human alliance from the ethnic groups of the uncreative Obin, the man-eating Rraey and the insectoid Eneshan. Damage assessment studies are then undertaken, in the course of which Boutin is cloned and his stored consciousness is transferred to the cloned body. However, consciousness cannot gain a foothold in the cloned, inexperienced brain. It develops a new personality known as Jared Dirac. He must first gather his own experience in order to be able to access Boutin's memories.
As soon as he can, he learns that Boutin has a daughter named Zoe. She almost died in an attack on a space station. It later turns out that it was not the Obin who attacked the space station, as was first suspected, but the Rraey. The Obin were able to save Zoe and want to gain an awareness through Boutin that they have lacked so far. Boutin demands that the Obin wage war against the KVA / Colonial Union so that humans can join a conclave of all species in the nearby universe (apart from the highly developed Consu who helped the Obin to become intelligent).
After Jared learns the whereabouts of Boutin from his memories, a group of the special forces led by Jane Sagan (who plays a main character in the first part of War of the Clones ) is assigned to kidnap or kill Boutin. Since Boutin has built a backdoor into the BrainPal, the mission almost fails. Through the sacrifice of Dirac, who reprograms his SmartBlood to self-ignite, both Boutin and Dirac are killed and Sagan escapes with Zoe.
expenditure
- Geisterbrigaden , December 2007, Heyne Verlag , ISBN 978-3-453-52268-8 ( The Ghost Brigades , Tor Books 2007, ISBN 978-0765354068 )
- War of the Clones - The Trilogy , (contains War of the Clones , Ghost Brigades and The Last Colony ), August 2016, Heyne Verlag, ISBN 978-3-4533-1776-5