Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview
  • Failure Mode

  • Expeditionary Force, Book 15
  • By: Craig Alanson
  • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
  • Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (2,392 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Failure Mode

By: Craig Alanson
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £43.99

Buy Now for £43.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

When a mission ends in disaster—there is no way to achieve the objective, no way to regroup and try again, no plan B, no hope—all you can do is fall back into FAILURE MODE and try to salvage whatever you can.

...if it is even possible to save anything, or anyone.

The galaxy is doomed. Monkeys may be clever and too stubborn to give up, but Skippy The Idiot Who Got Played knows the harsh truth: this is a fight he can’t win. The odds are not only stacked against him, he was designed not to win this fight.

Maybe he can salvage some faint memory of the civilizations that inhabit the galaxy, but those beings are doomed. Doomed. Including the Merry Band of Pirates.

©2022 Craig Alanson (P)2022 Podium Audio
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Convergence cover art
Deathtrap cover art
Ruins of the Earth cover art
Ascendant: Book 1 cover art
Fear the Sky cover art
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) cover art
The Forever cover art
Aces cover art
Hell Divers cover art
Storm Clouds cover art
Wayward Galaxy cover art
Chain of Command cover art
Genesis: Arisen, Book 0.5 cover art
Ruins of the Galaxy cover art
Tin Man: A Galaxy's Edge Prequel cover art
Infinite cover art

What listeners say about Failure Mode

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2,067
  • 4 Stars
    200
  • 3 Stars
    81
  • 2 Stars
    29
  • 1 Stars
    15
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2,173
  • 4 Stars
    77
  • 3 Stars
    6
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    1
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1,826
  • 4 Stars
    256
  • 3 Stars
    96
  • 2 Stars
    49
  • 1 Stars
    28

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Awesome

Brilliant ending to a fantastic series of books..this should be a TV show of 10 one hour episodes per book..obviously RC couldn't do everyone voice but he can and definitely should be skippy..apart from one iv enjoyed these books more than i thought possible..action drama and of course humor.
a lot of humor.. as in genuine laugh out loud humour..and hopefully jo and skippy will return and of course many thanks to RC..i don't think that any one else could have brought these books to life like RC did..and if anyone's interested and enjoyed these books like i have..try the Bobiverse books by Dennis E Taylor.
TRUST THE AWESOMENESS FOLKS

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Good fun!

Missing Skippy allready.
The story is coherent and the narrator is exceptionally good. Hope to see Skippy and friends again!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Skippy is even more magnificent.

I absolutely loved this book, it is Skippy and Joe Bishop at their very best. Sketchy, cunning and everything else you expect from them, brilliant!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

What a series!

Absolutely loved the series and R.C. Bray's performance. It's bittersweet knowing that there'll be no further Skippy, Joe and the Pirate's adventures, but I can honestly day that I loved every minute of the series.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Amazing

I have loved these books. RC Bray and Craig Alanson are a genius pairing. Now I'm just waiting for the movie 😉. Great job guys.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Just brilliant

Great imagination and RC Bray at his fantastic best. Highly recommended for all sci-fi fans

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Banging

Anther great book , really enjoy this series and look forward to each release. Give it a go.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

What do I say?

This is my favourite audio book series ever and I have listened to quite a few. The highs are mountains and rival Mount Everest and the lows rival the Mariana Trench. Another incredible book in the fantastic series known as Expeditionary Force.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

I nearly cried ….

…. When the book ended. Expeditionary Force is one of my favourite series and I didn’t want it to end. And weirdly I always kinda knew what the end would be like. In a way it was predictable. There was of course a moment when I thought I was wrong but then I wasn’t.

The story started at bit slow but the last third was brilliant. I don’t share the negative views here in the review about the ending. As I say. I expected it to go this way so in that sense I was happy.

I will likely re-listen the series again. Such a great story. The one thing I have to say, and it is t just about book 15, is that in parts, especially later books, it became a lot more complicated to stay with it. Almost like, if you don’t listen properly for a few minutes or skip a few pages, you’d lose completely about what is going on.

The first half of the series was a lot easier to digest. But then again the story lines were easier and we didn’t have to deal with so many characters.

Anyway. Loved it.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

A fitting end to a great series

I really enjoyed the finale, felt right fit the tone of the series so far.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!