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The Ten Thousand (Portal Wars Book 2) Kindle Edition

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Book 2 of 3: Portal Wars

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Portal Worlds Book II (The exciting sequel to Gehenna Dawn)

General Jake Taylor and his army of cyborg soldiers are veterans of Erastus, a planet so brutal, so hellish, it is called Gehenna by the men sent to fight and die there. He and his comrades battled for years in the most appalling conditions human beings have ever endured, believing the entire time they were protecting Earth from bloodthirsty alien monsters. But it was all a lie, the cynical propaganda of the totalitarian regime that rules over all mankind.

The alien Tegeri, and their bio-mechanical soldiers Taylor’s men call the Machines, were the victims, targeted by a regime that needed an enemy to consolidate its absolute rule over mankind. For decades, men like Taylor and his soldiers were the aggressors, unwittingly fighting an unjust war. But when the Tegeri chose Taylor as their contact and finally told him the horrible truth, he rallied the veterans of Erastus for a new battle, one to free Earth from its self-appointed masters.

Taylor’s soldiers begin the long campaign back to Earth, toward a reckoning with the brutal government they are sworn to destroy. The heart of this force is the Ten Thousand, surgically-altered Supersoldiers, products of an experimental enhancement program, and the first of their kind. But they are not the last, and on the planet Juno they will meet their counterparts, the Black Corps, a force created by Earth’s government specifically to destroy them. The Black Corps outnumbers Taylor’s soldiers 2-1, and they have a vast advantage in supply and logistical support. But Taylor’s men are veterans of the furnace of Gehenna, and they don’t die easily.

But there is more at stake than the freedom of humanity, greater consequences to their fight than even Taylor can imagine. For there is another alien race, one shrouded in legend and myth, known to the Tegeri only as the Darkness. Long ago the Darkness made war on the Ancients, the mighty beings that built the interstellar Portals. The Ancients are remembered in Tegeri lore as wise and powerful…almost as gods. But they fell ages past, destroyed utterly by the Darkness.

Now that great evil is returning, and this time it will destroy not only mankind and the Tegeri, but all the fledgling races the Ancients planted, hundreds of young sentient species, only now grasping for civilization.

The Ancients long ago foretold that an alliance of men and Tegeri would stand and defeat the Darkness and save the galaxy from destruction. But if this prophecy is to come to pass, Taylor and his men must destroy Earth’s totalitarian government and bring the dark truth to mankind, that there is another war to fight, one vaster and more terrible than any in human history or legend.

The Portal Wars Series

Gehenna Dawn (Portal Worlds 1)
The Ten Thousand (Portal Wars 2)
Homefront (Portal Wars 3)

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00NKYJB9Y
Publisher ‏ : ‎ System 7 Publishing (September 14, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 14, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 464 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 230 pages

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I’m a lifetime Northeasterner, and I currently live in New York City, where I write from my apartment…and continue to fill small notebooks with ideas for future books. I've been reading science fiction and fantasy for just about as long as I've been reading, so, of course, when I started to write, that’s where I ended up. It’s been a great ride so far!

My tastes as a reader are fairly varied and eclectic, but I'd say my favorites are military and dystopian science fiction, space opera, alternate history, and epic fantasy, usually a little bit gritty. I also read a lot of non-fiction, mostly history. I write a lot of science fiction with military themes, but also other SF and some fantasy as well. I like complex characters and lots of backstory and action. Honestly, I think world-building is the heart of science fiction and fantasy, and since that is what I've always been drawn to as a reader, that is what I write.

Among other things, I write the bestselling Crimson Worlds series and the Far Stars series published by Harper Voyager.

I've been an investor and real estate developer for a long time (mostly retired from it now), a fiction author more recently. When I'm not writing, I enjoy traveling, running, hiking, reading. I love hearing from readers and always answer emails. I think you stop growing as a writer if you stop listening to those who read your books.

Join my mailing list at http://www.jayallanbooks.com, for updates on new releases (and some free and discounted books), and follow me on Twitter @jayallanwrites for an occasional look at work in progress and thoughts on the genre in general. Or you can email me at jay@jayallanbooks.com. I try to answer every email.

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Gordon L

Excellent Mil Sci Fi.

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2016

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Another excellent novel. Plenty of action. Interesting excerpts from the journal of Jake taylor show us the development of his character and his thinking. Also, we see more background info on the Tegeri and what both Humans and Tegeri face in the future. He started with ten thousand super soldiers with the mission to free Earth from UNGov, the Tegerei who they had been told had started the war now their allies but could not intervene. But the UNGov will not give up, they want to crush Taylor before the truth is known. Back on Earth, political machinations among the rulers. UNGov can produce their own enhanced soldiers to fight Taylor. Plenty of action, Brutal most of the time.
War is not pretty and with enhanced weapons...
Very good job.

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JJCEO

We are wretched creatures, men!

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2015

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I have read almost all of the books written by Jay Allan. I love science fiction especially military science fiction and Jay is a good author of this genre. This is the second book of this series of the Portal Wars. I liked the first book, Gehenna Dawn, and I rated it at 5 stars. The Ten Thousand is the second book of the series and I liked it also but I rated it at 4 stars. It is still a very good military Sci-Fi story but for me there was too much politics in it and mental remorse of the main character, Jake Taylor. He feels the pain of all of the good men that have died fighting for him and for all of the men and aliens that he and his army have killed in battle.

Jake is faced with a war to win back the human race and free it from an oppressive government that has used mankind to fight a needless war against an alien race. He leads his battle hardened super soldiers against misinformed human armies to get to Earth to destroy the present political leadership. The aliens have shown him the truth and Jake feels that mankind deserves a chance of having free choice. His goal is to free billions of humans from the lies and tyranny of corrupt politicians who want to stay in power.

I like the story and the battle scenarios and I liked the premise of the storyline. There was just to much remorse expressed by Jake for the wars and battles and for me it focused too much of the story on that topic. It is still worth getting and reading as I liked the book and I will get the next release in the series.

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JAK

Great story!

Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2017

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This is what I'm taking about!! A fantastic sequel to a very good first book in a trilogy. Totally gripping! The sacrifices made by General Jake Taylor and his men are unimaginable as they continue on their quest to free Earth from the UNGov which has ruled and sacrificed generations of people in a war they made up against aliens - the Tegeri, who would rather be allies with the Earthers against The Darkness - an evil force that wiped out the race of Ancients who may have been the progenitors of both human and Tegeri and countless other younger lesser developed species throughout the universe.

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Texican

Good, But not Up To standard

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2015

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As I have said in other reviews, I will read about anything Mr. Allan writes. I read this one, and I was slightly disappointed in this novel.

Frankly, if it had been from another author I would not have been interested in continuing the series at all. In many places the plotline did that, it plotted. This reviewer really saw no strong strategic or tactical reason to fight as hard as the troops under General Jake Taylor had to for a prize that was at best only a stepping stone? He never intended to establish a permeant base on the planet of Juno. It seems to this armchair general that a lightning move through enemy territory would be better, especially since you are low on supplies, men and ammo.

The characters just do not seem to grow in this book. The bad guys are just evil, and have no sign of good. Heck, even Hitler petted his dog.

Yes, I will read the next book in the series. I hope it gets up to the standards of the Crimson Worlds quickly. If it does not I will take Jay off my lst of authors Iwill read every book that he writes.

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ATechnoholic

And the plot thickens

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2018

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This was a good continuation of the first book. The story line flows well and character development is thorough. There was some repeating, and editing issues, and a few times the chapters were jarring and didn't flow well, with a disconnect from whose point of view it was in. Still, it was a great continuation and I'm looking forwards to the 3rd book

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John Matlock

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2017

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After reading the first book in the portal wars trilogy, there was no question but that I had to buy this book. It certainly lived up to my expectations. The protagonist in the book makes the decision that he's got to lead his somewhat ragtag army to overthrow the self-centered dictatorial leaders back on earth. The question that interested me was, how is he going to take a few thousand soldiers and overthrow a government commanding hundreds of thousands. Mr. Allen came up with some quite interesting plot flops and their solutions in a clear and believable fashion.

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2014

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Hello community,

I am pushing 50, I am retired and I am not a literature major. But I know good Sci Fi when I read it and Jay Allen is good. I am hooked on this series. The Portal Wars story has stirred deep thoughts in me about my current situation in my world. It has me thinking "Well sh*t, this kind of situation has been happening with humans and their leaders all through our history! Any novel that compels me to feel and think, and assess my Id, environment, morals etc., is a great novel!

The story is brutal. The main character goes through a startling evolution until he is what it takes to get the job done. The emotional side of war is not covered in some of the stories I have read. This is not one of those. It is not just an after action report recounting the events. This series lets me feel what the characters feel, see what they see and Jay Allen pulls no punches.

This is the second book in the series. I strongly advise you to get the first and dig in, for you are in for one hell of a read!

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Rob Wilson

Great book

Reviewed in Canada on November 19, 2017

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Follows up on Ghenna and follows through with great writing. I enjoyed both books and look forward to #3. Totally enjoyable.

Frank

Portal Wars 11

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2017

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Great story of intrigue, cunning and heroes, lots of heroes. The battle scenes are truly epic. Characters are formidable but I have a problem with Taylor's attitude that he thinks he is the only one capable knowing all the facts. It is his burden - rubbish.
From someone who has been in that situation it is grossly self indulgent.
The more soldiers understand what they are fighting for the better they will be.

Areanod

Good story, weak style

Reviewed in Germany on April 2, 2016

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First of all: I'm not a native speaker, I read English literature for excercise and fun, with English can more stories be told than in my mother tongue.

Pros of this book:
* The overall story was very fascinating for me and I liked reading it.
* The characters MOSTLY stayed true and developed in interesting ways
* The CO of the Juno forces was a really nice addition to the plot

Con(s):
* I'm used to seeing a typo here or a lost quotation mark there but in this book I sometimes had to re-read who pages of text because the train of thought was not comprehensible for me.
* Many auto-correct mistakes, e.g. when Taylor leaves Juno and Evans tells him that he couldn't come with, Taylor touches Evans on the shoulder. In the book it's written that Taylor touches Evan's soldier. If the word was not misspelled that would have been one hell of a good-bye.
* Inconsistencies: One time Taylor wants to cry and can't because of his supersoldier upgrades, then he cries when Blackie died. Did they upgrade his bionic eyes during his campagne? Did it come with a windscreen wiper?
One time after Black's promotion to Colonel he's suddenly a General, then again a Colonel. Taylor seems to hand out promotions and demotions like other people use toilet paper.
Oceania has been pacified and then again one of the longest campaigns still were taking place?
* At least one chapter worth of pages could have been left out of this book because of the numerous repetitions. "Yes, we already know from the first book that the battle and sun hardended veterans from Erastus named the planet Gehenna, thanks for telling us over and over again."
"Really, I almost forgot that the grunts of the forces on the portal worlds where forced into service themselves, that reminder was well placed." The two-sentence information, it would be unthinkable and unprecedented that a member of the secretariat was murdered, was repeated 5 times.

I bought the whole trilogy and just finished the second book. The story itself would have deserved at least 4 stars (if not 5) but the long-winded ever repeating narrative presentation of facts already known to the reader and the feeling that nobody did proof read the story before publishing ate up all of the fun in reading this novel.

I gave it a second star because it helps me fall asleep way faster than anything I've read for the past year.

Mark n Toni

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on February 14, 2015

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Great series so far, keep em coming

Oddjob

Excellent Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 12, 2016

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Jay Allan says that it took him over 10 years to write these 3 books with many rewrites and indeed that has led to a well writing and excellent trilogy. The story builds to a super climax, the plot is believable and the main character reasonably well developed. The tec is good but not original and aliens believable.

It would have been even better if the other main characters were equally well developed, there had been a little romance in the story.

Overall it's great value for money and a trilogy that I really couldn't put down until I had read the last page.

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