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  • Published: 15 December 2006
  • ISBN: 9780345460592
  • Imprint: Random House Worlds
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $19.99

Starfist

Force Recon




Military science fiction is hot, and this spinoff of the STARFIST series delivers thrilling action written by two military vets.

A bold new contingent—Force Recon—joins the explosive Starfist space epic of marines at war. 

A Confederation army is besieged on the planet Ravenette, cut off by and facing destruction at the hands of a dozen Secessionist Coalition worlds arrayed against it. The outnumbered and outgunned forces cling precariously to their foothold, dubbed “Bataan” by the desperate men in their fighting bunkers. Reinforcements are on the way, but will they arrive in time? And even if they do, can they match the well-led, highly motivated enemy determined to destroy them in battle?

But the Confederation commander holds a wild card, an elite force armed only with what they carry on their backs and in their heads: a small detachment of Marines who lightly go where others fear to tread, the Fourth Force Recon Company. For anyone else this mission would be suicide, but for these Marines, it’s just another day in the maelstrom.

  • Published: 15 December 2006
  • ISBN: 9780345460592
  • Imprint: Random House Worlds
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $19.99

About the authors

David Sherman

David Sherman is a former US Marine and the author of eight 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 the military fantasy series Demontech.

Dan Cragg

Dan Cragg enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1958 and retired with the rank of sergeant major twenty-two years later. He is the author of Inside the VC and the NVA (with Michael Lee Lanning), Top Sergeant (with William G. Bainbridge), and a Vietnam War novel, The Soldier's Prize. He is retired from his work as an analyst for the Department of Defense.

Praise for Starfist

"Vivid characters, amazing but believable technology, and explosive action combine in a riveting adventure...Military fiction of any age or type simply does not get better than this."
    --Michael Lee Lanning, author of Inside Force Recon: Recon Marines in Vietnam and Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers in Vietnam

"Classic military science fiction . . . This is state-of-the-art military SF."
    -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Starfist: Lazarus Rising