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Operation Seraphim
The Saga Continues!
With Emperor Mathison in stasis and the empire struggling against the vanhat, humanity’s last hope is a desperate expedition to the galactic core. Their find an ancient race powerful enough to save humanity from extinction.
But when Major Zale Stathis’s recon mission to the massive city-ship Bifrost goes catastrophically wrong, his team becomes trapped aboard a vessel controlled by the vanhat. Meanwhile, Admiral Diamond Winters must navigate the damaged Musashi through hostile space, hunted by both the vanhat and the machine intelligences of the Collective that remain just a step behind.
The odds are a million-to-one, but Stathis must find a way to escape—and perhaps even seize control of the homestar’s navigation systems. But time is running out as the vanhat Jotun Shroggath prepares to use Bifrost for another genocidal attack.
In this pulse-pounding continuation of The Last Marines military sci-fi saga, humanity walks the razor’s edge between survival and extinction, where valor and determination may be the only weapons capable of turning the tide against the overwhelming odds.
With Emperor Mathison in stasis and the empire struggling against the vanhat, humanity’s last hope is a desperate expedition to the galactic core. Their find an ancient race powerful enough to save humanity from extinction.
But when Major Zale Stathis’s recon mission to the massive city-ship Bifrost goes catastrophically wrong, his team becomes trapped aboard a vessel controlled by the vanhat. Meanwhile, Admiral Diamond Winters must navigate the damaged Musashi through hostile space, hunted by both the vanhat and the machine intelligences of the Collective that remain just a step behind.
The odds are a million-to-one, but Stathis must find a way to escape—and perhaps even seize control of the homestar’s navigation systems. But time is running out as the vanhat Jotun Shroggath prepares to use Bifrost for another genocidal attack.
In this pulse-pounding continuation of The Last Marines military sci-fi saga, humanity walks the razor’s edge between survival and extinction, where valor and determination may be the only weapons capable of turning the tide against the overwhelming odds.
430 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 17, 2025
About the author
William S. Frisbee Jr.
34 books59 followersReader, writer, martial artist, US Marine, Veteran, Squad Leader, Team Leader, Saw Gunner, Rifleman, Computer Consultant, Security Officer, Dungeon Master, world traveler, Computer Gamer, dreamer, realist, American and best of all Dad!
Growing up in Europe during the height of the cold war and then serving in a Marine SOC (Special Operations Capable) Battalion during the collapse of Communism provided a lot of life experience and a unique perspective on life and the world. The first novel he read was Jules Vern's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' when he was ten and has been reading ever since.
Before the Marines he was a pocket protector wearing nerd, after the Marines he held jobs as a Security officer/Patrol Sergeant, Lieutenant and other odd specialized jobs like body guard or surveillance, and ended up brushing off the pocket protector to become a Computer Consultant.
These days he dreams of quitting his day job as a computer consultant to work full time as a writer and dad.
Learn more at http://www.WilliamSFrisbee.com Thank you!
Growing up in Europe during the height of the cold war and then serving in a Marine SOC (Special Operations Capable) Battalion during the collapse of Communism provided a lot of life experience and a unique perspective on life and the world. The first novel he read was Jules Vern's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' when he was ten and has been reading ever since.
Before the Marines he was a pocket protector wearing nerd, after the Marines he held jobs as a Security officer/Patrol Sergeant, Lieutenant and other odd specialized jobs like body guard or surveillance, and ended up brushing off the pocket protector to become a Computer Consultant.
These days he dreams of quitting his day job as a computer consultant to work full time as a writer and dad.
Learn more at http://www.WilliamSFrisbee.com Thank you!
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July 1, 2025
Best one yet
This was the best one yet. This is a damn good read. Have enjoyed this series immensely. Know I'm again waiting for the next book
This was the best one yet. This is a damn good read. Have enjoyed this series immensely. Know I'm again waiting for the next book
July 21, 2025
Calvin wrote a great review I completely second.
July 11, 2025
Lots going on, nothing really going on
This book was kind of tough because it's been so long since the last one came out. I struggled to remember everything that had happened previously so a "what's gone on before" recap section would've been nice. Stathis and Winters are off to find the alien angels that might be able to help them fight the vanhat and Collective. The mission gets hit with setback after setback. Seriously, nothing goes right for the group. Then on top of all that, Stathis decides to go off on a search and rescue mission which makes absolutely no sense. With Stathis and Winters separated, the book jumps around a bunch but nothing really good happens. Stathis deals with a massive ship filled with vanhat trying to find survivors. Winters has to deal with a traitor and spy on the ship. In the end, the book just kind of trails off. There's no big fight or anything. I'm hoping the next one is a lot better
This book was kind of tough because it's been so long since the last one came out. I struggled to remember everything that had happened previously so a "what's gone on before" recap section would've been nice. Stathis and Winters are off to find the alien angels that might be able to help them fight the vanhat and Collective. The mission gets hit with setback after setback. Seriously, nothing goes right for the group. Then on top of all that, Stathis decides to go off on a search and rescue mission which makes absolutely no sense. With Stathis and Winters separated, the book jumps around a bunch but nothing really good happens. Stathis deals with a massive ship filled with vanhat trying to find survivors. Winters has to deal with a traitor and spy on the ship. In the end, the book just kind of trails off. There's no big fight or anything. I'm hoping the next one is a lot better
October 11, 2025
Losing steam
This series is now running out of steam, feels forced to continue. It must be said that nothing really happens in this story. Don't hold your breath for any big reveals or action.
Each chapter alternates between Winters and Stathis primarily, with Sif featured in a few. Basic premise is Winters is taking a fleet to find help from other entities / aliens, things never work out. Not from the get go, the Vanhat/Collective are always right there chomping at their heels. It really gets much too tiresome, boring in fact - seemingly the author running out of ideas - it's rinse & repeat - run to new system, hide from enemies, try to find the spies, enemies arrive, perhaps a small battle (or not), jump to Shorr space. Again. And again.
Then we have Stathis stuck on a Repub Homestar that is infested with Vanhat & is jumping all over the place , while he behaves worse than an adolescent regarding his lust for Hakala. Come on Frisbee Jr, can that guy grow up yet? The other tiresome aspect is the whole "I'm a US Marine, I do the impossible, RAR RAR GO Team." that started being annoying after the 350th time in this book. Yeah man we get it. Go Marines.
Sif is attacked by some weird spectral vanhat assassin, she detects some other entities and that's about it.
A waste of time installment in this series. It should have been a short story and nothing more. Both Winters and Stathis are written poorly here. Winters common reply is "Fine". She's along for the ride and does nothing but second guess loyalties and ask for opinions.
This series is now running out of steam, feels forced to continue. It must be said that nothing really happens in this story. Don't hold your breath for any big reveals or action.
Each chapter alternates between Winters and Stathis primarily, with Sif featured in a few. Basic premise is Winters is taking a fleet to find help from other entities / aliens, things never work out. Not from the get go, the Vanhat/Collective are always right there chomping at their heels. It really gets much too tiresome, boring in fact - seemingly the author running out of ideas - it's rinse & repeat - run to new system, hide from enemies, try to find the spies, enemies arrive, perhaps a small battle (or not), jump to Shorr space. Again. And again.
Then we have Stathis stuck on a Repub Homestar that is infested with Vanhat & is jumping all over the place , while he behaves worse than an adolescent regarding his lust for Hakala. Come on Frisbee Jr, can that guy grow up yet? The other tiresome aspect is the whole "I'm a US Marine, I do the impossible, RAR RAR GO Team." that started being annoying after the 350th time in this book. Yeah man we get it. Go Marines.
Sif is attacked by some weird spectral vanhat assassin, she detects some other entities and that's about it.
A waste of time installment in this series. It should have been a short story and nothing more. Both Winters and Stathis are written poorly here. Winters common reply is "Fine". She's along for the ride and does nothing but second guess loyalties and ask for opinions.
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June 23, 2025
Easy review: when do we get to see the next installment. :)
More seriously, lots of action, the return of beloved characters, an expansion on the fundaments of the Last Marines Universe.
Really can't wait for the next one.
More seriously, lots of action, the return of beloved characters, an expansion on the fundaments of the Last Marines Universe.
Really can't wait for the next one.
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