Judiciously ignore them. Finesse a way around them. So what to do when your officers are malignant careerists or utter fools Stark tries everything. Opposing them: a consortium of rogue states and brigand nations who are just as vile-and full of politically-correct, self-righteous outrage to boot. It's hypocrisy versus mendacity on an interplanetary scale. And, of course, the enlisted soldiers and non-coms once again get the screws applied first, last, and always. Not to mention the hapless colonial civs who have the bad luck to be thrust into a shooting war on a world that's already deadly by definition!Įnter Sergeant Ethan Stark. Community college dropout. Enlisted grunt. Magna cum laude graduate of the school of hard knocks. Somewhere along the way, Stark has acquired the instinct for courage, bravery, and honor so sorely missing within the officer corps of the new military. A vastly more bureaucratic and oligarchic United States claims sole ownership. Humans have colonized the Moon, and now that the place is exporting actual resources back to Earth, old rivalries assert themselves. Welcome to a perfectly imagined near future in space that's a heartbeat away from our own present. Midwest Book Review on the "Stark" series. " igh caliber military science fiction . . .non-stop action and likable characters." "A gripping tale of military science fiction, in the tradition of Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Haldeman's Forever War."
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