The Meridian Ascent, Richard Phillips
The Meridian Ascent, Richard Phillips
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The Meridian Ascent

Author: Richard Phillips

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/08/2017

Synopsis

In their battle to save Earth from becoming another conquest of the alien Kasari Collective, Mark and Heather Smythe have struck crucial blows against the enemy. But their best efforts have still failed to derail the completion of the wormhole gateway that would give the insidious extraterrestrial invaders access to the planet—and doom humankind as helpless slaves of the Kasari hive mind.The Smythes and their intrepid allies—including the mentally altered humans, The Enhanced—stand ready to beat back the Kasari onslaught once and for all. Not by mortal combat, but with scientific cunning. Still, the success of their plan depends on a daring stealth mission into the heart of the aliens' nerve center on Earth. And multiple threats lie in wait—including the ruthless Kasari commander, a brutal double agent with a deadly vendetta to settle, and the alien entity Khal Teth, who wears a human face but is ready to strike with monstrous force.In this stunning conclusion to the Rho Agenda Assimilation by the bestselling author of The Second Ship, the small but fierce band of altered humans and Earth's resistance fighters face their greatest opportunity to stop the Kasari. But with the remnants of humanity and a battered Earth caught in the cross fire, can they secure a victory without sacrificing everything they're trying to protect?

About Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips was born in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1956. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1979 and qualified as an Army Ranger, going on to serve as an officer in the US Army. He earned a master's degree in physics from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1989, completing his thesis work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. After working as a research associate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he returned to the army to complete his tour of duty. Today he lives with his wife, Carol, in Phoenix, Arizona, where he writes science-fiction thrillers—including the Rho Agenda series (Once Dead, Dead Wrong, Dead Shift), the Rho Agenda Inception series (The Second Shift, Immune, and Wormhole), and the Rho Agenda Assimilation series (The Kasari Nexus, The Altreian Enigma, and The Meridian Ascent).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Darin on November 03, 2017

I love Richard Phillips! The Meridian Ascent is the culmination of three trilogies, and it is imperative that you read the prior eight books before this one. The first series, the Rho Agenda Inception, consists of Once Dead, Dead Wrong, and Dead Shift. Philips uses these books to develop the characte......more

Goodreads review by Mary Valerie Stroh on October 02, 2017

SPECTACULAR I am a huge fan of Isaac Asimov, Foundation series. I have now found an author to rival Isaac. This 9 book Rho Agenda series is well written, thought out and, in my opinion, well researched. In the beginning there were 2 main characters; throughout the series, a few additional were added......more

Goodreads review by Brad on June 19, 2018

After reading the previous 8 books, I must admit I was a little disappointed in the ending. It seemed a little more like a socio-political statement than a story we'd been loving these past 8 books. Without spoiling, I also felt the sacrifice somewhat predictable and unfortunate...I thought that par......more

Goodreads review by Mike on October 07, 2017

It doesn't look good. Earth's leaders have unwittingly opened a wormhole that will allow an alien race to assimilate mankind. All the efforts of Heather and Mark and their team of uberhackers and robots couldn't prevent disaster. And the rest of the world's governments have no idea they're headed to......more

Goodreads review by Sin-Yaw on October 15, 2021

This is for the entire 3-book series, not meant to be read independently. Richard Philips had a grandeur and ambitious plot that he executed masterfully. Occasionally, he liked to remind the readers what happened before and explain the science a bit long. That’s not an issue. This time, he ventured o......more

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