StarCraft II: The Devil's Due: Blizzard Legends (Starcraft: Blizzard Legends, 2)

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The year is 2494. Almost five years ago, Jim Raynor and Tychus Findlay were members of the Heaven’s Devils, an elite Confederate marine unit praised for its nerves of steel and combat expertise . After making a stand against their corrupt commanding officer, the two men were forced to go AWOL or risk being unjustly prosecuted and resocialized. Now, Raynor and Findlay are outlaws hounded by an unyielding interstellar marshal. Life, however, has never been better. Each day is another chance to pilfer more credits from the Confederacy’s deep coffers. Each night holds the promise of spending their hard-earned profits in bars, brothels, and gambling halls. But a man can only run so far before the law—and his past—catches up with him. Review: Thrilling ride - Amazing story. Read it in 2 days Review: A Great Starcraft Prequel Novel - Starcraft: Devil’s Due is the continuation of the origin story of popular Starcraft character Marshal Jim Raynor as started in Willam C. Dietz’s Heaven's Devils. However, even though it was something that I never even considered as something worth finding out about, this was a very entertaining and fulfilling read. Here is the opportunity to get to know the real James Raynor and how deep his friendship with Tychus Findlay really was. The threat from the bounty hunter chasing them was palpable as was the feeling of loss when the other Devils fell into his hands. The action was exciting and well realised (no shaky cam here). Raynor's return to the homestead was a little by the numbers, but still tugged the heartstrings effectively. Raynor's final confrontation was actually quite moving. The story ended as expected, all ready for the original games to kick off. It also makes Raynor's actions at the end of Starcraf: Wings of Liberty all the more heartbreaking. These may have had the glaring omission of Protoss or Zerg, but the larger than life characters, the action and adventure as well as a good dose of heart, made it so that I hardly noticed. Overall, I’d say this was a great prequel novel to the games, and would definitely recommend any Starcraft fan give Devil Due a read.