The Daedalus Files: SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC)

by Robert G Williscroft

Overview

Can you drop from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with just a hardshell wingsuit? Navy SEAL Derek “Tiger” Baily and his SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC) develop an experimental Gryphon hardshell wingsuit that can do just that. Eventually, when the presidential front-runner is seized by pirates for ransom, Baily’s 6-man SWIC team must hurtle around the world, staging critical re-entry for a rescue, challenged to solve life-or-death problems with only seconds to spare. Can they survive? Will they effect the rescue? Join Tiger Baily through all four adventures in sci-fi master Robert G. Williscroft’s Daedalus series, now collected for the first time as “The Daedalus Files: SEALS Winged Insertion Command (SWIC).”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781947867888
Publisher:	Fresh Ink Group
Publication date:	03/24/2024
Series:	The Starchild Saga
Edition description:	Book 2 of 4: The Starchild Saga ed.
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

Editorial Reviews

Williscroft’s usual attention to technical detail and firsthand experience with military ops pays off in these wild tales set in the world of his Slingshot, about the first wingsuit jump from a launch loop, then from LEO, followed by a squad of jumpers, and finally, their jump into live combat. The idea of jumping from orbit using little more than a spacesuit and a re-entry pack goes back at least to Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, and I’ve used it myself, but Williscroft puts a new twist on it as Navy SEAL “Tiger” Baily makes the jump first from 80 km and then LEO. Another fun ride, if your idea of fun includes death-defying action. The test and training runs are over; now it’s time for the SWIC to see real action. . . .

— Alastair Mayer, Author of The T-Space Series

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