I enjoyed the first book in this series, Mickey 7 (you can read my review here), so I also read the sequel, Antimatter Blues (2023). Both books are set on a hostile planet where a human colony is struggling to survive. Mickey Barnes, who volunteered to be an Expendable (a person who willingly undertakes dangerous missions–and is resurrected if killed). In Mickey 7 Barnes has to deal with the aliens who could destroy the colony and his inadvertent doppelgänger.
Antimatter Blues takes place two years later with the colony facing a dire problem: they are running out of antimatter which fuels their power system and is necessary to generate food. The only answer is to retrieve the antimatter bomb Mickey 7 hid outside the colony and use it to generate power. But, when Mickey 7 searches for the antimatter bomb, it is gone.
That leads Mickey 7, his girl friend Nasha, and his pilot friend, Berto, and a small contingent of soldiers to attempt to regain the antimatter bomb that is now in the hands of the aliens. I’m enjoying the Mickey 7 series and I think you would, too. GRADE: B