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An exciting new special-ops adventure from the battle-tested vets who created the popular Starfist series
Jorge Lavager, charismatic leader of the mysterious Union of Margelan, ferociously guards an agricultural research facility on the planet Atlas. What that facility conceals will prove whether Lavager is an idealist seeking to unify Atlas under a banner of freedom and prosperity—or a tyrant aiming to control all of Human Space.
The Marines of Fourth Force Recon’s second platoon are dispatched to Atlas to uncover the truth. They will have to sneak past state-of-the-art surveillance equipment barring unlawful entry to the planet and land in a desolate area miles from their target. And if they discover lethal new weapons instead of legitimate research, the thirty-six Marines are to seize the compound—guarded by merciless, armed-to-the-teeth soldiers—and destroy it. But what the recon team finds on Atlas sets off a chain of events that will force some hard decisions on the Marines . . . and end in a deadly surprise.
David Sherman
Sherman's an author, playwright, singer/songwriter and former journalist and editor with The Gazette in Montreal. His checkered past includes stints as a screenwriter, CBC Radio producer and documentary film producer. A recovering gym rat, he writes for a blog he started: You're Going to Die. Live with it, shops, drinks coffee and watches tourists in the small Laurentian town in which he lives and consorts with his guitar nightly. He performs on occasion in the mountains and in Montreal. He likes to cook with his partner in a home they share surrounded by a forest of birch trees, to which he is allergic. For hobbies, he takes allergy meds and feeds carrots to the deer and suet to the woodpeckers. Previous publications include the play Have A Heart, the novel The Alcoholic's Daughter and a collection of essays on the decline of the newspaper biz, Fish Wrapped: True Confessions of Newsrooms Past.
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