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Terran Strike Marines
Series · 5 books · 2018-2019

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#1

The Dotari Salvation

2018

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 Dotari Salvation is an action-packed military science fiction adventure set in the best-selling Ember War universe.
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#2

Rage of Winter

2018

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. Rage of Winter is the second book in the Terran Strike Marine series. Read this action-packed military science fiction novel set in the best-selling Ember War universe!
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#3

Valdar's Hammer

2018

War has come to Syracuse, and only one team of Terran Strike Marines can save the planet. They are Valdar's Hammer. Admiral Isaac Valdar leads the Breitenfeld, and a fleet of Dotari allies, in a last ditch attempt to break a Kesaht blockade over the human colony. Failure means the death of millions of innocent lives - but the aging carrier, and her commander, have a reputation for miracles. Outnumbered and outmatched, Valdar sends his elite Strike Marines into the breach. Lieutenant Hoffman must lead his battle worn troops into the heart of a shattered moon on a desperate gamble to turn the tide. But fighting alongside the Dotari is its own challenge, and the Kesaht aren’t the only enemy to deal with… The Ember War universe is going to change forever. Buy Valdar’s Hammer, the next action packed installment of the Ember Wars NOW.
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#4

The Beast of Eridu

2018

An ancient Beast awakens, and only Lieutenant Hoffman and his Strike Marines can put it down. On the sweltering jungle world of Eridu, hidden in an ancient vault is an artefact which will change the course of the war against the ever-encroaching Kesaht armada. But guarding it is a deadly creature, a Beast with the ability to destroy any technology it encounters. When modern equipment fails the Strike Marines, and with the fledgling human colony on Eridu under threat, they must turn to a hero of the Ember wars and a tracker without peer. Stueben, the Karigole warrior. But The Beast isn’t the only threat the Terran Strike Marines still face. Another enemy lurks in the shadows of Eridu. One bent on revenge against Hoffman. Read the latest installment of Terran Strike Marines, an action filled military science fiction adventure full set in the Ember War Universe.
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#5

Gott Mit Uns

2019

Terran Strike Marines fight for victory. No matter the odds. No matter the cost. The final battle against the Kesaht begins. Lieutenant Hoffman and the exhausted Marines of Valdar's Hammer are called upon to make a desperate assault against the enemy's home world. But the foe is prepared, and their planet is a death trap. While the Strike Marines fight for their lives, the fabled ship Breitenfeld remains captured by the Ibarra Nation, and the Ember War hero Valdar languishes in a cell. The ship and her Captain are held on a strange world of the Ibarra's design, and only the Hammers can free them. Hoffman and his Strike Marines have fought from the icy wastes of Koen, to the jungles of Eridu, and even deep into the heart of a shattered moon, but their final mission will demand a price in blood. Read by Luke Daniels.

Author

Richard Fox
Richard Fox
Author · 38 books

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
  10. Iron Dragoons
  11. The Ibarra Sanction
  12. The True Measure
  13. A House Divided
  14. The Last Aeon
  15. Ferrum Corde Terran Strike Marines
  16. The Dotari Salvation
  17. Rage of Winter
  18. Valdar's Hammer
  19. The Beast of Eridu
  20. Gott Mit Uns The Exiled Fleet:
  21. Albion Lost
  22. The Long March
  23. Finest Hour
  24. Point of Honor The Terra Nova Chronicles
  25. Terra Nova
  26. Bloodlines
  27. Wings of Redemption
  28. Hale's War Subscribe to Richard's spam free email list and get free short stories set during the Ember War Saga (and more as they become available) at: http://eepurl.com/bLj1gf Like him on Facebook (best place to reach him): https://www.facebook.com/Richard-Fox-... Website: www.richardfoxauthor.com
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