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One Jump Ahead

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Baen Pub. Enterprises, 2007 - Fiction - 293 pages
Jon Moore: A nanotech-enhanced warrior who wants nothing more than a quiet life and a way back to his strange home world. Lobo: An AI-enhanced Predator-Class Assault Vehicle, a mobile fortress equipped for any environment from the seabed to interstellar space. TWO WOLVES IN A GALAXY OF LARGER PREDATORS

Jon Moore wanted only to relax on the pristine planet of Macken--but Macken was the secret battleground of two megacorporations, both determined to control the local jump gate and the riches of an undeveloped world. Moore was too valuable a tool not to be used, whether or not he was willing. What the corporations didn't realize was that Moore had a mind of his own and a conscience that wouldn't let him quit until he'd righted the wrong they'd tricked him into making. And Moore had Lobo--or just possibly Lobo had Jon Moore, because this Assault Vehicle had a mind of its own. . . .

Finding allies and enemies among terrorist groups and elite mercenaries, gun-runners and the only kind of government possible on a frontier short on rules and long on riches, Jon and Lobo fight to a climax with a corporate army that can't afford to leave any witnesses. Exotic settings, fast action, real tech, mechanically-enhanced animals—and a beautiful woman who's as deadly as a cobra!

One Jump Ahead: the first novel in the Jon & Lobo series

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Review: One Jump Ahead (Jon & Lobo #1)

User Review  - David - Goodreads

For year now, I have lamented about the lack of SPACE OPERA.. ie real Science Fiction stuff... Once in awhile I discover someone like Timothy Zahn or Elizabeth Moon is still writing old fashioned ... Read full review

Review: One Jump Ahead (Jon & Lobo #1)

User Review  - Dirk Grobbelaar - Goodreads

I'll start off by saying that the author handles Lobo with admirable restraint. Let's face it, there is a lot of potential for unprecedented mayhem here. Instead, there is a lot of tactical, and even ... Read full review

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About the author (2007)

Mark L. Van Name, whom John Ringo has said is "going to be the guy to beat in the race to the top of SFdom," has worked in the high-tech industry for over 30 years and today runs a technology assessment company in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. A former Executive Vice President for Ziff Davis Media and a national technology columnist, he's published over a thousand computer-related articles and multiple science fiction stories in a variety of magazines and anthologies, including theYear's Best Science Fiction. Jon & Lobo stories have appeared in a Baen anthology andJim Baen's Universe.

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