An Cosantóir the official magazine of the Irish Defence Forces and Reserve Defence Forces.
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www.military.ie the defence forces magazine | 35 gAMe CAll oF DuTy: ADVANCED WARFARE CALL OF DUTy: ADVANCED WARFARE, developed by Sledgehammer Games (co-developers of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3), takes place in a plausible future in which technological progress and today's military practices have converged with powerful consequences. COD Advanced Warfare envisions where both technology and tactic have evolved to usher in a new era of combat, Private Military Corporations (PMCs) have become the dominant armed forces for countless nations outsourcing their military needs, redrawing borders and rewriting the rules of war. Jonathan Irons, the founder and president of the world's largest PMC - Atlas Corporation – one of the most powerful men in the world – shaping this chilling vision of the future of war. www.callofduty.com/advancedwarfare Genre: Action - PEGI: 18+ - Platforms: Xbox 360, One, PS3/4 & PC - Price: €64.99 - €74.99 (gamestop.ie) - Released: 4th November, 2014. ©2014 Activision Publishing, Inc. All logos and trademarks belong to their respective owners. All rights reserved. STePS To heAveN: A SGT MAJOR CRANE NOVEL Author: Wendy Cartmell Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (June 2012) & Endeavour Press (June 2014) iSBN: 978-1467938815 / ASiN: B00L3LR7RO Price: €5.99 PB / €2.55 eBook Pages: 326 STEPS TO HEAVEN is the first in Wendy Cartmell's Sgt Major Crane series, with the sixth due out very soon. I have to admit I was caught off guard with this one - it was even better than I had expected. Sgt Major Crane is a Special Investigation Branch (SIB) Detective in the British Army's Royal Military Police (RMP) Corps, based in the Aldershot Garrison; he's a very experienced and well travelled soldier, who takes his job very seriously. In our first outing with Sgt Major Crane, there are a number of similar murder cases including families all ending in a suicide by the perpetrator – of whom all are serving soldiers, stationed in different barracks around the UK. Crane painstakingly travels back and forth to connect the cases and find the cause. A collection of religious pamphlets leads him to an evangelistic church – could there be a connection? Nothing has prepared him or his team for this case. WF Wendy's crime series Sgt Major Crane draws on her husband's 22 years service in the British Army. www.wendycartmell.webs.com PRIMAL MIRzA Publisher: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. (May 2014) ASiN: B00KIAMGDQ Price: €2.58 Pages: 149 ThE PRIMAL SERIES: origin (#1) unleashed (#2), Vengeance (#3), Fury (#4) and now two prequel novellas PRIMAL Mirza and PRIMAL Inception to lend more character depth and back story to this great series. Prior to becoming a PRIMAL operative Corporal Mirza Mansoor was an Indian Special Forces soldier, he was operating on the India / Pakistan border in 1999 just after the Kargil war. During a cross border para commando raid he learns about the deployment of a team of Lashkar terrorists on their way through the Kashmir Mountains. Their destination is the Indian Capital New Delhi. Mirza is then recruited to Special Group, and along with his partner himesh Arjun travel to the capital. In the slums of New Delhi their quarry have aligned with a criminal gang and gone underground. As the two operatives try and track down the terrorist cell they run fowl of the local National Security Guards (NSG) commander – so they go it alone to find and take down the cell before it's too late. WF PRIMAL INCEPTION Publisher: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. (August 2014) ASiN: B00MQCND7W Price: €2.58 Pages: 130 PRIMAL INCEPTION FEATURES CIA operatives Ice and Vance prior to their recruitment to the Primal team and is set in Kosovo in 1999. It's now two years after the war that broke up old yugoslavia, with many Albanian and Serbian war veterans still operating in and around Kosovo – as well as the now occupying NATO/ PfP peacekeeping forces and international administration organisations. Ice and Vance whilst supporting an Albanian unit during this vicious ethnic conflict witness a war crime that goes unrecorded and unpunished by the international administration. Defying their CIA boss they decide to take on the now Albanian mafia boss and his criminal gang with the help of an SAS unit – who take the battle to the streets of Pristina. This novella will appeal to many who have served in Kosovo during this period. WF www.primalunleashed.com The PriMAl SerieS By JACk SilkSToNe