Planetside

This book pulled me in right away. In fact, it took me off of another book that I was quite enjoying.
A fast-paced mix of mystery and military SF told in the first person, it hit my sweet spots.
Colonel Carl Butler is nearing retirement when he is dispatched to Cappa Three, a remote but economically important planet, to investigate the disappearance of a young officer. There, the human occupiers are fighting a seemingly endless native insurgency.
Things don't go smoothly. Someone is obstructing his investigation, and it seems that there is a deeper mystery related to the MIA officer. Eventually Butler is forced to go planetside to find answers. Things then rapidly go south. We get a good mystery, a doozy of a conspiracy, and lots of boots in the dust military action. The ending is a stunner.
Good first book. Mammay knows how to spin a yarn; a writer to watch. A solid four+ stars.
(I pre-ordered Mammay's next book.)