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Starfist: Blood Contact
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Starfist: Blood Contact Soft cover - 1999

by Sherman, David & Cragg, Dan

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The fourth action-packed military sci-fi adventure featuring a Marine squad on a deadly interstellar mission, by the duo of armed-forces veterans who authored "First to Fight, School of Fire, " and "Steel Gauntlet."

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New York: Ballantine, 1999. Soft cover. VG. Spine creas. 4x0x6. Military SF: Marines in the 25th century.
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  • Title Starfist: Blood Contact
  • Author Sherman, David & Cragg, Dan
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Condition Used - VG. Spine creas
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine, New York
  • Date 1999
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1071001
  • ISBN 9780345425270 / 0345425278
  • Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.85 x 4.36 x 0.97 in (17.40 x 11.07 x 2.46 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Life on other planets
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99090665
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Through three centuries of interstellar travel, intelligent alien life- forms had never been encountered . . . until now.When a scientific team exploring an obscure planet fails to make its regular communications check, the Marines of third platoon are sent to investigate. They prepare for a routine rescue operation, but what they find on Society 437 is a horror beyond description. Only a handful of ragtag pirates who were in the wrong place at the very worst time have survived, and there is little trace of the scientists.What happened to the scientists? Why have the pirates been spared? Gunnery Sergeant Bass and the men of third platoon are about to find out, and the answer carries a terrifying implication for the Marines--and the entire human race.From the Paperback edition.

From the publisher

David Sherman is a former United States Marine and the author of eight previously published novels about Marines in Vietnam, where he served as an infantryman and as a member of a Combined Action Platoon. He is an alumnus of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked as a sculptor for many years before turning to writing.  Along the way he has held a variety of jobs, mostly supervisory and managerial. Today he is a full-time writer. He lives in Philadelphia.

Dan Cragg enlisted in the United States Army in 1958 and retired with the rank of sergeant major twenty-two years later. During his army service, Mr. Cragg served more than eleven years in overseas stations, five and a half of them in Vietnam. He is the author of Inside the VC and NVA (with Michael Lee Lanning), Top Sergeant (with William G. Bainbridge), and a Vietnam War novel, The Soldier's Prize. In real life Mr. Cragg is an analyst for the Defense Department. He and his wife, Sunny, live in Virginia, where honest citizens are allowed to pack heat. Visitors after dark are strongly urged to call ahead.

From the rear cover

Through three centuries of interstellar travel, intelligent alien life-forms had never been encountered . . . until now.

When a scientific team exploring an obscure planet fails to make its regular communications check, the Marines of third platoon are sent to investigate. They prepare for a routine rescue operation, but what they find on Society 437 is a horror beyond description. Only a handful of ragtag pirates who were in the wrong place at the very worst time have survived, and there is little trace of the scientists.

What happened to the scientists? Why have the pirates been spared? Gunnery Sergeant Bass and the men of third platoon are about to find out, and the answer carries a terrifying implication for the Marines -- and the entire human race.

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"CAUTION! Any book written by Dan Cragg and David Sherman is bound to be addictive."
--RALPH PETERS
   New York Times bestselling author of
   Red Army

About the author

David Sherman is a former United States Marine and the author of eight previously published novels about Marines in Vietnam, where he served as an infantryman and as a member of a Combined Action Platoon. He is an alumnus of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked as a sculptor for many years before turning to writing. Along the way he has held a variety of jobs, mostly supervisory and managerial. Today he is a full-time writer. He lives in Philadelphia.

Dan Cragg enlisted in the United States Army in 1958 and retired with the rank of sergeant major twenty-two years later. During his army service, Mr. Cragg served more than eleven years in overseas stations, five and a half of them in Vietnam. He is the author of Inside the VC and NVA (with Michael Lee Lanning), Top Sergeant (with William G. Bainbridge), and a Vietnam War novel, The Soldier's Prize. In real life Mr. Cragg is an analyst for the Defense Department. He and his wife, Sunny, live in Virginia, where honest citizens are allowed to pack heat. Visitors after dark are strongly urged to call ahead.

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