- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey (Mar 25 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345490428
- ISBN-13: 978-0345490421
- Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 2 x 17 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #413,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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SEALS–America’s best just got better.
On the heels of a bloody first contact comes Earth’s most important diplomatic mission in history: a summit meeting with the three alien empires vying for control of the galaxy. Assurance that Earth’s first extraterrestrial ambassadors aboard the spaceship Pangaea will be safe means little to Lieutenant Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. After all, a job’s a job. As escorts on the voyage, Jackson and his sixteen-man team of new-breed Navy SEALS (Sea, Air, Land, and Space) must be neither seen nor heard. Unless, of course, the op hits the fan.
While Jackson and his team respond to a distress call from an allied fleet, the Pangaea, with all its diplomatic passengers, goes missing, forcing the SEALS to follow the trail to an ice moon at the edge of the galaxy, a harsh environment crawling with crack commandos and hostile enemies. But for these warriors with their outrageous firepower, what seems an impossible quest is just another day in deep space.
On the heels of a bloody first contact comes Earth’s most important diplomatic mission in history: a summit meeting with the three alien empires vying for control of the galaxy. Assurance that Earth’s first extraterrestrial ambassadors aboard the spaceship Pangaea will be safe means little to Lieutenant Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. After all, a job’s a job. As escorts on the voyage, Jackson and his sixteen-man team of new-breed Navy SEALS (Sea, Air, Land, and Space) must be neither seen nor heard. Unless, of course, the op hits the fan.
While Jackson and his team respond to a distress call from an allied fleet, the Pangaea, with all its diplomatic passengers, goes missing, forcing the SEALS to follow the trail to an ice moon at the edge of the galaxy, a harsh environment crawling with crack commandos and hostile enemies. But for these warriors with their outrageous firepower, what seems an impossible quest is just another day in deep space.
About the Author
Kevin Dockery is a noted military historian and the author of many books, including Future Weapons, Navy SEALs: The Complete History, and One Perfect Op: Navy SEAL Special Warfare Teams. He served in the President’s Guard under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and spent time in Iraq and Kuwait during Desert Storm as, as he puts it, a “corporate mercenary.” He lives in Ohio.
Douglas Niles has written more than thirty-five novels, including the WWII alternate-history thrillers MacArthur’s War: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan, Fox on the Rhine, and Fox at the Front (all co-authored with Michael Dobson). The latter two novels were both Main Selections of the Military Book Club and Featured Selections of the Science Fiction Book Club. He lives in Delavan, Wisconsin.
Douglas Niles has written more than thirty-five novels, including the WWII alternate-history thrillers MacArthur’s War: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan, Fox on the Rhine, and Fox at the Front (all co-authored with Michael Dobson). The latter two novels were both Main Selections of the Military Book Club and Featured Selections of the Science Fiction Book Club. He lives in Delavan, Wisconsin.
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Brain candy only, May 30 2008
By R. Worth - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Starstrike: Operation Orion (Mass Market Paperback)
This story is writen for 12 yr olds. The good guys always win. The bad guys always lose. You have the inevitable good guys that get killed or hurt that cause the rest of the good guys to push on and win. This happens in almost all the "encounters". If you want a quick feel good story go ahead and read it. If you want a developed story line and characters, save your money.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Juvenile Writing Style, April 27 2008
By D. Collier - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Starstrike: Operation Orion (Mass Market Paperback)
This is one of the exceptionally rare books that is just so badly written that I put it down without finishing it. I plowed through about a third of the book, but just couldn't take any more of the cookie cutter dialogue (one of the worst attempts at a bombastic military "dressing down" I've ever encountered), embarrassingly bad attempts at justification of technology, odd and inconsistent terminology (SEALS, SEALs, SEALSs? Yuck.), and just plain bad plot lines. This book reflects the sort of writing I'd expect from a 14 year old amateur author writing stories in his class notebook.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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don't bother, Jun 6 2008
By MartyM - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Starstrike: Operation Orion (Mass Market Paperback)
If you never read a book before and you think that military men have a great and profound rapport and are all saints and that in every fire fight the good guys beat the bad guys and are barely wounded you might enjoy this. Else not. and by the way there are no women in this group.
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