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White Fire (A Toni Delle Adventure Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Laurie Bell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Everybody lies. Watch your back.

Sure, Agent Toni Delle has trust issues. Mate, her canine robot partner and Zach, her attitude-enabled shipboard Computer Intelligence Interface constantly tell her that – but as she told them, that was because of The Smuggler.

She would have refused her new mission altogether if it wasn’t for the insane amount of money... Oh, who was she kidding – danger, betrayal, secrets, lies – these were all the things she loved about her job. She just didn’t expect The Smuggler would be involved. If she’d known that she would have told her boss to jump out of an airlock, in space, without a suit.

So she takes the mission: find and stop a new weapon being manufactured and smuggled into the hands of criminal elements all over the galaxy. And hey, while she's at it, can she also find the missing weapons designer linked to these shipments?

The only problem is she has to rely on information provided by The Smuggler himself. And he may not be the only one capable of betrayal.

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28 August 2018
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Laurie lives in Victoria, Australia with her partner and two cats (who have a mansion outside). As a Sci-Fi aficionado, she maintains an active blog of science fiction, fantasy, and flash fiction pieces (found at www.solothefirst.wordpress.com), and serves as a regular volunteer at her local theatre company. (Including several stints as Assistant Director). She has several short stories published in the Antipodean SF E-Magazine. www.antisf.com and many new books on the go.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07GX7ZMZK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Laurie Bell (28 August 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 496 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 319 pages

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Laurie Bell is the author of the Stones of Power series, White Fire and Boss from Hell. She is a lover of fantasy and science fiction of all kinds, and is often found in coffee shops or on trains writing madly in one of many notebooks.

Oh and she loves chocolate and coffee!

Laurie maintains an active blog of science fiction, fantasy, and flash fiction pieces. Discover more about Laurie Bell at https://solothefirst.wordpress.com/

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Ray B

White Fire

Reviewed in Australia on 9 February 2019

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I loved this novel, a great adventure and a courageous hero, Tonyi Delle, with her robot dog and switched on artificial intellence in her ship. She battles the bad guys, and saves the day, despite the dangers she faced throughout the galaxy. It is well worth the money and I look forward to reading Toni Delle's next adventure.

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Justine Hardman

Friendship and bravery seem to be the most important things

Reviewed in Australia on 2 April 2019

Action packed with interesting characters. I’m not usually a sci-fi fan, but the humour, dialogue and mystery grabbed me and I found this hard to put down. Toni is strong, quirky and certainly flawed protagonist, and Bell hints at an interesting backstory which I hope will come to light in the next instalments.

Reviewed in Australia on 24 January 2019

Took this away as my holiday book. After a few days finally sat down to read and boy did I wish I had read earlier over the long journey…how the hours would have whizzed by. As it was I had to tell the family I was having me time and needed to be left alone… I could not put the book down.
The main character, Toni was flawed which made her real. She made me laugh and shake my head in equal measure. How I would love to sit down with her and provide some wise old wisdom on people…in some ways she has much to learn! The team of three had delightful foibles but through grit, determination and shear luck manage to navigate through at high speed albeit with many scars along the way. I can’t think what to say about the other main character Dan without giving things away.
I really hope the next book reveals more of the ‘back stories’. Can’t wait for it to arrive. This is really a holiday book where you have the space to read it from cover to cover. It is fast paced with detail that can be easily be missed if you had to keep stop starting. Having said that it is also easy reading once you get through the first few pages and relax into the pace…it would have to be easy reading because you want to devour it.
And well done to the author for casting a women in the lead role and doing it well without writing in any underlying feminist agenda. Makes it more powerful as a result.

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Cath T

Great rollicking space adventure with a strong female lead

Reviewed in Australia on 7 January 2019

This book is super fun and hard to put down. The main character is likeable but unusual. She definitely has her faults and flaws, but navigates a path to success by relying on her integrity, rather than particular skill or heroics. This makes for an interesting role model, for which success is based on how we act to ourselves and others and not on some super powers. All of this is set in a backdrop of complex inter-planetary struggles, and a cast of fun characters. There's a couple of twists and turns to keep it interesting. If you're into space adventures then this is for you, and it's accessible from 12 years on to adults.

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Veronica Strachan

An action packed scifi adventure

Reviewed in Australia on 9 September 2020

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Danger, betrayal, secrets, lies? Absolutely! Add to this sharp scifi a snarky ship AI and a canine robot partner for a quirky agent with see-through skin and a whole head full of hangups. Now you have a great recipe for a fun and fast-paced read. The cast is small so we get to follow them closely through the action, twists, and dangers as they race to save the galaxy. The world-building is thorough and slick, giving the cast a wonderful backdrop for the action-packed plot.
And there's enough left hanging about some key relationships that I'll be looking out for the next Toni Delle Adventure.
A great read.

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Carolyn Vaughan

A compelling main character in a fast-paced, exhilarating race through space

Reviewed in the United States on 6 March 2019

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Toni Delle is a force to be reckoned with. An agent of a specialized space investigative force, she’s a master of circuitry, weaponry, spaceflight, robotics, and even high-tech first aid. What she can’t master, though, are her feelings for Dan, the smuggler she is supposed to arrest but can’t quite manage to cuff.

White Fire is an exhilarating race through space—through planets with dive bars and exotic casinos and desert depots—as Toni tries to intercept mega-weapons, intergalactic poisons, and political assassinations. Luckily, she has help from the AI that controls her spaceship and especially from her Lassie-like companion, a talking canine robot named Mate.

Laurie Bell’s imagination is seemingly as limitless as space itself. Each planet has distinctive and well-defined characteristics, as do the non-human creatures from those worlds, such as Crelliks, with skeletons on the outside; Dobers, with neckless bodies of pure muscle; and Nymphs, with pale green skin and horned foreheads. She also gives us Ticyon Flux Fields, hypersonic wave-resistance mag-rifles, and the holonet.

Climb aboard the Blackflame and join Toni on her mission to Waystation EEXDU and beyond.

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Iain Kelly

An enjoyable, fast-paced read for sci-fi fans and those who just like a good action-adventure story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 June 2020

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I approached this book with some trepidation, not being a regular reader of full-on sci-fi, but my fears were completely unfounded. Like all good sci-fi, the secret is to make character and situations that we can relate to, no matter where or when or who is involved and that is exactly what 'White Fire' does. The main character Toni has the same emotions, worries and issues that we all recognise - it just so happens she is also an intergalactic agent! She even has a robotic dog as a partner that allows for some typically human-pet dog bonding!
The book is a fast-paced adventure which takes inspiration from everything from Star Wars (smugglers, political intrigue) to Star Trek (agents of a space force trying to maintain intergalactic peace, tensions along the borders of space) and throws in a smatterings of romance and humour.
The world (or, universe) created feels very real and well thought out - I am in admiration of the imagination involved in dreaming up the different worlds and societies that are encountered.
The main plus though is the sense of great fun and adventure that runs through the book from start to finish.

Ms_Jade_Li

Entertaining High Tech Sci-Fi Interplanetary Adventure

Reviewed in the United States on 9 May 2020

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What's not to like about Special Secret Agent Toni Delle, who has see-through skin, heightened senses, courage and grit seasoned with experience; AND who has her own C-bot (Canine Robot, Mate) and a Computer Intelligence Interface (CII) named Zach, who has a knack for initiative and a sassy cuteness that's hard to resist. She's also an electronics expert who loves using and tweaking high-tech gadgets.

Agent Delle's interplanetary travels on her trusty lightship Blackflame, while she's outsmarting slick smugglers and getting into multiple hand-to-hand combats and other dangerous situations, keeps things interesting throughout, “White Fire.”

Amongst the dangerous missions, there are sexy, intelligent females and chiseled, intelligent men, all doing their things, legal and illegal. The dialogue is sharp, the descriptions vivid, and Agent Delle's running stream-of-consciousness sparkles.

I hope that “White Fire” is just the first of many books chronicling the sci-fi adventures of Agent Toni Delle.

Jonathan Ng

I highly recommend this to any sci-fi lovers!

Reviewed in the United States on 8 February 2019

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I love stories set in another world. This story doesn’t disappoint. The details of the world is exceptional, even the curses! Agent Toni Delle and her robotic dog, Mate, make a great team as they embark on a mission to stop destructive weapons from destroying their planet. The action and suspense makes this book a fast read. I love that! I highly recommend this to any sci-fi lovers!

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