Battle at Zero Point

Starhawk #4

by Mack Maloney

When the Specials - an evil, controlling species - discover a portal that leads them to powerful new allies during an Imperial war, military strategist and pilot Hawk Hunter, the leader of the rebellion against the Specials, must travel through the dimensions to enlist the help of other worlds in order to save the galaxy. Original.

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 10, 2011

About the author

Mack Maloney is the author of numerous fiction series, including Wingman, ChopperOps, Starhawk, and Pirate Hunters, as well as UFOs in Wartime – What They Didn’t Want You to Know. A native Bostonian, Maloney received a bachelor of science degree in journalism at Suffolk University and a master of arts degree in film at Emerson College. He is the host of a national radio show, Mack Maloney’s Military X-Files. Visit him on Facebook and at www.mackmaloney.com.

Mack Maloney is the Pen name for BRIAN KELLEHER

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Starhawk series is a very odd and puzzling thing. The original sixteen Hawk Hunter Wingman books were published from 1987-1999 by Zebra and Pinnacle with "Men's Adventure" printed on the spine as the genre tag. About a decade and a half later Hawk-as-Wingman was rebooted with a seventeenth book, and so far two more have appeared subsequently. In between, though, we had the five Starhawk books, which Ace published in the first few years of the new millennium, with "Science Fiction" printed on their spines. The covers are military sf/space opera scenes, with a man over the title who looks nothing much like the way Hawk was ever described. There are elements of the original books, but mixed in with liberal dollops of Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon with lots of Star Wars imagery. The Wingman books are all filled with pulpish hyperbole, but it's escalated by several orders of magnitude in Starhawk. Hawk is introduced in the first book with a profound sense of confusion and dislocation and a sense that he isn't quite sure what's going on; it's a feeling that continues and dominates the series. Hawk's never quite sure what it's all about, and neither is the reader. They're always waiting for a big reveal that's unfortunately never paid off, though we get hints and bits and pieces along the way. Is it all a dream or an alternate universe or a chess game guided by divine intervention? We never find out for sure, though I suppose it does lead to the freedom to reach your own conclusion, and Hawk is all about the importance of freedom. The individual plot points of the Starhawk books have all blurred in my memory, but I do remember enjoying the individual reads, though the puzzles weren't resolved to my satisfaction. I certainly did not enjoy them as much as Wingman, but they were lightly entertaining (even though they occasionally bordered on the silly), and didn't seem to me to embrace the pulp values of the earlier books.

[Roy Rush · Rating 5 out of 5]

turned out to be a good book , still trying to figure out how hawk got to the centery

[Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

My favorite of this series is still Planet America. This story gets weird though still fun in places. I think the author had a lot of fun writing these novels. Not for me sadly but well-written regardless. The must read for this series is Starhawk: Planet America.

[Mary Reed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

Highly enjoyed this work. Mack Maloney at his norm recycling characters, but with great imagination this time. Worth the time to read.