Publisher Description
It’s the 25th century, but the Marines are still looking for a few good men . . . “Marines ain't supposed to sit. We're supposed to kill.” After the resource-rich planet Diamunde is seized by the armed forces of industrialist Marston St. Cyr, the Confederation Marines face their most desperate battles yet against the mechanized forces of the bloody usurper. Promised a walkover by military planners, instead the Marines must run a gauntlet of steel, with weaponry three hundred years out of date. For the Confederation's invasion army to seize the planet, the Marine FISTs first have to secure a planethead against St. Cyr's much larger forces which are equipped with superior weapons. Together with their outgunned comrades, the Marines of 34th FIST must do the impossible—or die . . .
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About the Authors
David Sherman is a former US
Marine and the author of several novels about marines in Vietnam, where he
served as an infantryman and member of a combined action platoon.
Dan Cragg enlisted in the US
Army in 1958 and retired with the rank of sergeant major twenty-two years
later. He is the coauthor of Inside the
VC and NVA, Top Sergeant, and a
Vietnam War novel, The Soldier’s Prize.
He is currently an analyst with the Defense Department.
About John Bedford Lloyd
John Bedford Lloyd, Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, has appeared in many major motion pictures, including The Bourne Supremacy, Crossing Delancey, The Abyss, The Manchurian Candidate, and Philadelphia. His television credits include Suits, Pan Am, Law & Order, Spin City, and The West Wing.