"The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War Book 2)" by John Scalzi
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Brigades-Old-Mans-War/dp/1447295382

Book number two of a seven book space opera military science fiction
series plus a couple of short stories. I reread the well printed and
well bound trade paperback published by Tor back in 2006 that I bought
from Amazon in 2026 (my son probably stole my original). I own all of
the succeeding books and plan to reread them also plus the new book in
the series. BTW, this series was just awarded the 2026 Hugo Award for
Best Series, a very legitimate award in my opinion.

In the first book we learned that 75 year old volunteers from Earth have
their consciousnesses moved from their birth body to a new vastly
improved green body with SmartBlood (tm) built for them using their DNA
with a BrainPal (tm) at another star system. So what happened to those volunteers who did not make it to 75? Their new bodies are built and
then booted up minus their consciousness to become the new Special
Forces, nicknamed the Ghost Brigades.

One of the top consciousness transfer scientists, Charles Boutin, an Earthborn, is a traitor to the Colonial Union and has defected to the
Obin, an alien race who want to build their own consciousness transfer
device. The Special Forces make retrieving Boutin their top priority.

There is a much better synopsis of the story at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Brigades

The author has incredibly busy website at
https://whatever.scalzi.com/
And he has a mallet if you annoy him. In fact, he has malleted me a few times. His website, his rules.

My rating: 6 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (19,986 reviews)

Lynn


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