Sequel to national bestseller, Nebula Award finalist, and Compton
Crook Award winner "Fire with Fire. "Science fiction adventure on a
grand scale.
When reluctant interstellar diplomat and intelligence operative
Caine Riordan returns from humanity's first encounter with alien
races, sudden war clouds burst. With Earth's fleet shattered by a
sneak attack and its survivors fighting for their lives, Caine must
rely upon both his first contact and weaponry skills to contend
with the non-humanoid enemy. And when the technologically-superior
attackers sweep aside the solar system's last defenses, and
traitorous corporations invite the invaders to land 'security
forces, ' humanity fights back with its best weapons: cunning,
inventiveness, and guts.
But as Earth hurtles towards a final trial by fire that is certain
to scar its collective memory, Caine discovers that there may also
be large and disturbing gaps in that memory. Clues point to a much
earlier inter-species apocalypse, buried in humanity's own
prehistory. Which raises a terrifying possibility: what if the
aliens' invasion of Earth is not one of conquest, but preemption?
And what if their harrowing memories of a long-past cataclysmic war
makes them willing to do anything to keep it from reigniting?
Even if that means exterminating the human race.
About Compton Crook award winner for best first novel, "Fire with
Fire:
""Chuck Gannon is one of those marvelous finds--someone as
comfortable with characters as he is with technology, and equally
adept at providing those characters with problems to solve.
Imaginative, fun, and not afraid to step on the occasional toe or
gore the occasional sacred cow, his stories do not
disappoint."--David Weber
"If we meet strong aliens out there, will we suffer the fate of the
Aztecs and Incas, or find the agility to survive? Gannon fizzes
with ideas about the dangerous politics of first contact."--David
Brin
"The plot is intriguing and then some. Well-developed and
self-consistent; intelligent readers are going to like it."--Jerry
Pournelle
" T]he intersecting plot threads, action and well-conceived science
kept those pages turning."--"SF Crowsnest"
About Starfire series hit, "Extremis," coauthored by Charles E.
Gannon:
"Vivid. . . Battle sequences mingle with thought-provoking exegesis
. . ."-"Publishers Weekly"
"It's a grand, fun series of battles and campaigns, worthy of
anything Dale Brown or Larry Bond ever wrote." -"Analog"
About Charles E. Gannon:
" A] strong writer of] . . . military SF. . . much] action going on
in his work, with a lot of physics behind it. There is a real sense
of the urgency of war and the sacrifices it demands." -"Locus"
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