Rally Point

Demontech #2

by David Sherman

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 and coauthor of the bestselling military science fiction series, Starfist. He lives in Philadelphia.

Genres: Fantasy, Military Fiction, Science Fiction

ebook

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

David Sherman was the author or co-author of some three dozen books, most of which are about Marines in combat.
He wrote about US Marines in Vietnam (the Night Fighters series and three other novels), and the DemonTech series about Marines in a fantasy world. The 18th Race trilogy is military science fiction.
Other than military, he wrote a non-conventional vampire novel, The Hunt, and a mystery, Dead Man's Chest. He also released a collection of short fiction and non-fiction from early in his writing career, Sherman's Shorts; the Beginnings.
With Dan Cragg he wrote the popular Starfist series and its spin off series, Starfist: Force Recon—all about Marines in the Twenty-fifth Century.; and a Star Wars novel, Jedi Trial.
His books have been translated into Czech, Polish, German, and Japanese.
David passed away in November 2022.

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Haft and Spinner are my two most favorite fictional Marines. As someone with military experience I really enjoyed this series and was sad it was never finished.
Having a Marine take over through sheer intimidation and train a new Marine army was beautiful. The idea of calling the modern equipment they wield Demontech was very well done and it took me a while to puzzle out some of the gear.
I highly recommend this series to any sci-fi or military genre lover.

[Shannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not as exciting or action packed as the first book, but still a good read. The heroes are likable, but there is very little detail on the bad guys. A little too much time spent on detailed traveling in the first half of the book for my taste, but quite a bit of action in the second half.

[Halleck · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining, I enjoyed it a lot when I was younger. Adventurous but that's about it, I think the writing is a bit shallow. Similar to my review of the previous book.