Ian Douglas: Star Marines, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

The exciting, action-packed finale to the Legacy trilogy, as the Interstellar Marines face their more deadly foe ever.

Beschreibung

The Interstellar Marines have faced down the deadly alien An and rescued thousands of human slaves from tyranny. But through fire and ice and thickest battle in the deepest of space, they have never encountered an enemy like the one that faces them now. The deadliest aliens humanity has ever seen have returned - the fearsome Hunters of the Dawn. And their first strike devastates Earth as never before. In the dark days that follow, only the courage, loyalty, and bad-ass weapons of the Interstellar Marines offer the chance to save man from total annihilation. Hoorah!

Klappentext

With the planet's fighting men and women deployed across the galaxy?battling in the noble cause of enslaved humanity?the insidious Xul have reached across space to devastate the unsuspecting Earth with asteroid fire. Without warning, a once majestic world is reduced to near-rubble?and the very future of humankind is in dire jeopardy.

Interplanetary leaders are on the brink of abandoning Earth and its colonies to an overwhelming enemy. But Brigadier General Garroway of the Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit is unwilling to concede defeat?not as long as there's a single marine willing to give his or her life in defense of their embattled homeworld. The ultimate battle is about to be waged?with breathtaking new attack technology, an ancient code of courage, and the help of an ally race that once inhabited the Earth?in a war that will alter the universe forever . . .