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  • Published: 15 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9780345501028
  • Imprint: Ballantine
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $16.99

Starfist

Flashfire




It may be the twenty-fifth century, but the Marines are still looking for a few good men.

The Confederation has finally disclosed the existence of Skinks, fierce aliens bent on wiping out humankind. While the rest of the universe grapples with the news, the Skink-savvy Marines of the Confederation’s Thirty-fourth Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) have their own worries: they’ve just learned they can’t transfer out of the unit. Who else has the skills to fight the Skinks on their home turf when the time comes?

Morale isn’t improved by a report of Skinks on the uncolonized world of Ishtar—which means that FIST must turn around and head right back into the jaws of hell with no downtime. But none of that matters to Lieutenant Charlie Bass and the third platoon of Company L. They’re Marines, they’re the best, and they’ve got a job to do.

  • Published: 15 November 2010
  • ISBN: 9780345501028
  • Imprint: Ballantine
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $16.99

About the authors

David Sherman

David Sherman and Dan Cragg are the authors of Del Rey's successful military science fiction series Starfist. David Sherman is a former U. S. Marine and the author of 8 previously published novels about Marines in Vietnam, where he served as an infantryman and as a member of a Combined Action Platoon. He is also the author of a new military fantasy series entitled Demontech. Dan Cragg enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1958 and retired with the rank of sergeant major twenty-two years later. He is co-author of Inside the VC and NVA , Top Sergeant, and The Soldier's Prize. Mr. Cragg is an analyst for the Defense Dept. He and his wife, Sunny, live in Virginia.

Dan Cragg

David Sherman and Dan Cragg are the authors of Del Rey's successful military science fiction series Starfist. David Sherman is a former U. S. Marine and the author of 8 previously published novels about Marines in Vietnam, where he served as an infantryman and as a member of a Combined Action Platoon. He is also the author of a new military fantasy series entitled Demontech. Dan Cragg enlisted in the U. S. Army in 1958 and retired with the rank of sergeant major twenty-two years later. He is co-author of Inside the VC and NVA , Top Sergeant, and The Soldier's Prize. Mr. Cragg is an analyst for the Defense Dept. He and his wife, Sunny, live in Virginia.