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Monster hunter international series#

In any case, I suppose the jury's still out. And heck, I'm only on page 67, so who knows what'll turn up! Noteable mostly at this point because she wears glasses and packs heat.and she has dark hair, too, so I just realized that she's just a leather catsuit and a fake accent away from The Baroness. Oh, and there's a love interest type as well. It reminds me of the sort of characters Hunter: The Reckoning told you NOT to make in the game. I'm pretty sure I made a character like this when I was 15.

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More details of the protagonist's background are revealed, showing his father is/was a Special Forces legend, who trained the protagonist how to shoot when he was a kid.and also, the protagonist paid his way through accounting school by being a bouncer at a biker bar and moonlighting in illegal UFC-type fights on the side. And we meet some Federal agents who are vaguely-incompetent jerks, which just makes me go 'hm' again. The protagonist is a gun-nut, and a right-leaning, anti-authoritarian one, to boot (in a Baen book? I am shocked, I know). I mean, I understand calling your gun a Colt or a S&W or whatever, but does the reader really need to know the number of grains of powder in the rounds as they're being shot? The weaponry fetishization doesn't help much either. Maybe I'm just reading too much into this, but the 'your incompetent boss is really a monster and then you have to kill him' sounds.well, vaguely uncomfortably revenge-porn-y. Not saying there aren't gun toting number crunchers out there, but still. It's just that.the character is supposed to be an accountant. That's one way to deal with a monster that's going to eat you, sure.

357 revolver from his ankle holster and shoot him down. In the first chapter, the protagonist finds out his boss is a werewolf. I'm three chapters, in, and it's.something, alright.Īs, here's the deal. And hey, the back blurb talks about how the guy works for a monster hunting organization (obviously). I dunno why, but every now and again I get the urge to read something with one of those shiny, ugly, trashy covers. If a monster has a given or formal name, it will be listed in the Character section above.I had a bunch of credit at the local used bookstore, so I picked this book up on a whim. This is a list of monsters which appear in Monster Hunter Alpha. They are listed alphabetically by last name. This is a list of characters who appear in Monster Hunter Alpha. There is another person who is angling to be the Alpha and he has some extra help in the form of a magic amulet and then some. It turns out that Nikolai is not the only issue in Copper Lake, MI however. Monster Hunter Alpha opens with Earl going off on his own to take care of personal business with Earl's backstory interspersed.Įarl meets with an old handler from his time in Vietnam and learns of the presence of an old enemy, Nikolai Petrov, in Northern Michigan. We also learn more about how the Alpha is designated and what it means to be the Alpha werewolf.

This book contains the third of the journals which focuses on his experiences as a werewolf. PlotĮarl Harbinger lost some of his memories during his encounter with the demon he nicknamed 'Rocky' at the end of Monster Hunter Vendetta so he started writing them down in the form of journals in order to learn the extent of his loss. When darkness falls, the final hunt begins, and the only thing standing in their way is a handful of locals, a lot of firepower, and Earl Harbinger's stubborn refusal to roll over and play dead. But another force is working to bring about the creation of a whole new species of werewolf. When Earl receives word that one of his oldest foes, a legendarily vicious werewolf that worked for the KGB, has mysteriously appeared in the remote woods of Michigan, he decides to take care of some unfinished business. Nearly a century ago, Earl was cursed to be a werewolf.

Monster hunter international series#

#3 in the break-out series and a follow-up to Monster Hunter International and Monster Hunter Vendetta.Įarl Harbinger may be the leader of Monster Hunter International, but he's also got a secret.