When the Terran Union has a mission that must not fail, it calls upon the Strike Marines. They are trained to improvise, adapt, overcome and win every fight.
A deadly disease threatens the Dotari, Earth's allies, with extinction. The cure lies in deep space, and Lieutenant Hoffman and his team will join the starship 'Breitenfeld' as it journeys into the void and makes a desperate attempt to save the dying race. Lurking in the abyss is a threat that's waited with inhuman patience. Hoffman must lead his marines through a gauntlet and evade a foe designed to hunt and kill them.
THE RAGE OF WINTER, BOOK 2:
One Shot. One Kill. One sniper to strike fear in the heart of alien invaders.
Hoffman's Strike Marines pursue enemy agents across a wintry world, desperate to stop an insidious threat festering in the heart of the Terran Union. Their hunt is disrupted when the fanatical Kesaht invade and the team is split across the snow and ice of a harsh planet. The team's sniper, Duke, plays a deadly game of hit-and-run to slow the aliens' advance and earns the ire of the enemy commander. Hoffman, trapped in the frigid wilds, leads his Marines and their cunning prisoners back to the front, where they must join the fight against the Kesaht before the planet is lost.
'Terran Strike Marines': 'Publisher's Pack' is an action-packed military science-fiction adventure set in the best-selling Ember War universe.
Richard Fox is a Nebula Award nominated author, and winner of the 2017 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy novel, author of The Ember War Saga, a military science fiction and space opera series, and other novels in the military history, thriller and space opera genres.
He lives in fabulous Las Vegas with his incredible wife and three boys, amazing children bent on anarchy.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) much to his surprise and spent ten years on active duty in the United States Army. He deployed on two combat tours to Iraq and received the Combat Action Badge, Bronze Star and Presidential Unit Citation.
The Ember War Saga: 1. The Ember War 2. The Ruins of Anthalas 3. Blood of Heroes 4. Earth Defiant 5. The Gardens of Nibiru 6. Battle of the Void 7. The Siege of Earth 8. The Crucible 9. The Xaros Reckoning
Terran Armored Corps 1. Iron Dragoons 2. The Ibarra Sanction 3. The True Measure 4. A House Divided 5. The Last Aeon 6. Ferrum Corde
Terran Strike Marines 1. The Dotari Salvation 2. Rage of Winter 3. Valdar's Hammer 4. The Beast of Eridu 5. Gott Mit Uns
The Exiled Fleet: 1. Albion Lost 2. The Long March 3. Finest Hour 4. Point of Honor
The Terra Nova Chronicles 1. Terra Nova 2. Bloodlines 3. Wings of Redemption 4. Hale's War
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I think this book earned it's 4 star rating, I think it was well written by Richard Fox & Scott Moon. It had well described scenes that you could easily imagine you were there. The action was fairly thick and fast paced as you would expect from this genre. Sure there were a couple of plot holes but what story doesn't have those, none of them were major or easy to forgive unless you are some kind of plot hole troll.
I listened to the audible version of these books and it was well narrated by Luke Daniels. I do have a bit of a gripe with Luke and that is he uses the same voices again and again for different characters in different books. It's not much of a gripe as I imagine it's tough to come up with different voices over and over again, I know I can't do that, props if you can. Like I said not much of a gripe and I like Luke as a narrator.
The content was interesting, the plot was decent and well written in my opinion. If I owned a paperback or hardback copy of these books I'd happily reread them further down the track. A great pair of books.