Cuba: El Presidente
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This is an Expansion to Cuba: Cuba prior to the revolution: Under turbulent circumstances, the...
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Off Base (Out of Uniform #1)
9.0
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After trading the barracks for a fixer-upper rental, navy SEAL Zack Nelson wants peace, not a...
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Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
8.6
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Actions have consequences from one game to the next as you strive to avert global disaster in this...
Puerto Rico
7.6
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In Puerto Rico, players assume the roles of colonial governors on the island of Puerto Rico. The aim...
Cuba
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Cuba prior to the revolution: Under turbulent circumstances, the villages of the island strive for...
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King Oil
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This MB game comes with a plastic "board". Its size is dictated by the three randomizing discs...
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Captured by Love (Michigan Brides, #3)
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Michigan Territory, 1814 A voyageur and a young woman swept up in a time of upheaval and danger ...
Ranch Dressing
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Get ready for a laugh-out-loud adventure with Samantha Kidd, the most stylish sleuth in Ribbon,...
The Ninja’s Illusion
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A fabled illusion performed by a stage magician who claims to possess real supernatural powers. A...
David McK (3801 KP) rated Commander (Jack Lark #10) in Books
Aug 7, 2022
To be clear: that's neither a con nor a pro: just something to be aware of!
In this one, the latest at the time of reviewing, Jack Lark is in Egypt, between employment (well, of a salubrious sort), when he is offered the opportunity to join an expedition into the Sudan, taking charge of new recruits in doing so.
What follows is the delays and danger (both of the natural variety as well as the man-made) of such an expedition into the wilderness, including the hunting of Elephants for ivory (on an industrial scale), slave trading and other such unsavoury pursuits which the expedition both aims to take part in and to stop.
As for Lark himself? He comes across as more melancholy than I remember from previous entries; more given to introspection than before. However, he also seems to end the novel in a better place than when he started: let's see how long that lasts!