Starfist: Flashfire
Reeks: Starfist
David Sherman ; Dan Cragg
- 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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