Starfist: Flashfire - David Sherman

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Title
Starfist: Flashfire
Author
David Sherman
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Del Rey
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20070327

Packed with hard-core action written by battle-savvy combat veterans, the explosive
Starfist series has become hugely popular across America. Now the saga of the courageous
Marines continues in Flashfire, as the 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST) ventures
to the edge of Human Space to fight a number of enemies . . . some on their own side.


Tensions erupt between the Confederation and several frontier worlds when civilians
are shot dead at an army base on the planet Ravenette. Enraged, the Ravenette government
and nine neighboring planets form a coalition, and their first act of secession is
to overrun Ravenette's Confederation garrison. With the armed forces of ten worlds
seizing the brutal upper hand, the embattled troops need help-now-and they need it
bad.

Enter the Marines of the 34th FIST. As the nearest ready-to-deploy unit, the
team is sent to Ravenette with orders to hold the line until reinforcements arrive.
The upcoming operation promises to be no picnic, for while sophisticates may ridicule
the backward ways of the uncouth frontier folk, no one scoffs at their fighting ability.

Charlie Bass doesn't mince words for his men in Company L's third platoon. Two army
divisions-perhaps thirty thousand soldiers-are being overwhelmed, and somebody expects
a thousand Marines to save the day. As pompous Confederation generals wreak even
more havoc than the enemy, there are those who call the mission suicide . . . but
not the Marines.

Of course it sounds hopeless, but for Marines like Charlie Bass
and the rest of the 34th FIST, accomplishing the impossible comes with the territory.

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David Sherman is a former U.S. 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. Visit the author's website at www.novelier.com.

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 has recently retired as an analyst for the Department of Defense.

Praise for Starfist

"Caution! Any book written by Dan Cragg and David Sherman is
bound to be addictive. . . . The authors have a deep firsthand knowledge of warfare,
an enthralling vision of the future, and the skill of veteran writers. Fans of military
fiction, science fiction, and suspense will all get their money's worth. . . . [These
novels are] fast, realistic, moral . . . and hard to put down. Sherman and Cragg
are a great team!"-Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Red Army

"A fast-paced tale of military heroics and personal courage."-Library Journal, on Starfist

"This is state-of-the-art military science fiction."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Type
BOOK
Country of Publication
New York (State)
Number of Pages
368

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