Résultats de "Rick Partlow" dans Toutes les catégories

Das Ende ist nahe …Der Krieg mit den Tahni zieht sich seit über zwei Jahren hin und fordert von allen Beteiligten einen hohen Blutzoll. In der Aphrodite-Kolonie bereitet Ryan Hendrix, der vom Marineinfanteristen in einen kybernetischen Kommandosoldaten verwandelt wurde, seine Miliz auf einen letzten Angriff gegen den Feind vor, der zu einem Himmelfahrtskommando werden könnte.

Der Erstkontakt ist schiefgelaufen ... Es war der Albtraum eines jeden Raumschiffkapitäns, und für Travis Miller war es seine eigene persönliche Hölle. Er folgte den Regeln, aber als die Tahni ihn und seine Crew angriffen, musste er einfach das Feuer erwidern und das erste außerirdische Schiff zerstören, dem die Menschen je begegnet sind. Travis wird in der Presse beschimpft, seine Karriere liegt in Scherben, und er wird auf eine lange Patrouille der äußeren Koloniewelten verbannt. Man vergisst ihn, außer als schlechtes Beispiel …

Ohne Waffen kann man keinen Krieg gewinnen. Charlie und seine Freunde müssen ihr Schiff bewaffnen, aber sie haben ein kleines Problem – Schwarzmarkt-Partikelkanonen kosten viel Geld. Und sie haben keins. Damit bleibt ihnen nur eine Möglichkeit. Sie müssen die Waffen vom Anguilar-Imperium stehlen. Es ist ein gewagter Plan, der jedoch fehlschlägt, als Laranna von ihrem Feind gefangen genommen und in ihre Heimatwelt Strada verschleppt wird, die vom Imperium erobert und besetzt wurde.

Hausos ist eine friedliche Bauernkolonie. Einst von den Tahni kontrolliert, wird sie nun von einer Gruppe heimatloser Flüchtlinge und Kriegsveteranen bewohnt, darunter Cam und Vicky. Ihr Leben ist angenehm langweilig und ruhig genug, dass die Dämonen des Krieges in einsamen Nächten in Cams Albträumen herumspuken. Er bekämpft die Dämonen mit Willenskraft und Alkohol und ist entschlossen, diesen Ort zu seinem Zuhause zu machen.

Cam is a Marine, not a spy. That’s what he keeps trying to tell Fleet Intelligence. But when he and Vicky signed back up, they agreed to follow orders. And their orders are to keep working for the Corporate Security Force, and find out what the private paramilitary force knows about Zan-Thint's plans to use Predecessor technology against the Commonwealth. Stuck leading a crew of cutthroat mercenaries - who want nothing more than to slaughter the wildcat miners, and take their rhenium ore - Cam and Vicky try to figure out why the Corporate Council is really interested in the mine.

From street criminal to war hero. From outcast to Marine officer. The journey has been a long one, but now it’s reaching the end. Cam Alvarez leads his platoon of Drop-Troopers into the Tahni Imperium, into the final days of the war and the bloodiest battles yet. The Tahni will throw everything they have into the defense of their core worlds, and when that includes using their own civilians as shields, Lt. Cam Alvarez will have to decide whether to follow orders and fire on civilians or follow his conscience and risk his caree...

All Cam Alvarez has known is war. For three years, he’s fought the marauding alien Tahni on one God-forsaken planet after another, leading a squad of armored Drop Troopers. But the war is about to change. Cam is an officer now, fresh out of OCS and taking charge of his old platoon, and things have reached a tipping point. Instead of fighting a desperate holding action against the enemy, the Commonwealth is finally ready to take back the human colonies the Tahni seized early in the war. To free the people the enemy have kept as human shields.

Cam Alvarez is a Drop-Trooper. A warrior-knight wrapped in the futuristic armor of a high-tech battlesuit, and he’s one of the best. When he’s promoted to sergeant and asked to become a leader, he faces a whole new challenge. The Marines are striking deep into enemy territory, and the casualties are mounting. Cam is torn, knowing his job is to follow orders and carry out the battle plan, even if he doesn’t agree with it. But his squad has become his family, and now he’s being asked to lead his family into battle, knowing it will mean their deaths.

For small-time street hustler Cam Alvarez, the choice is simple. He has no family, no friends, no place in the world...nothing to lose. When his latest con results in the death of a cartel hitman, Cam opts to join the Marines and leave Earth to fight a vicious alien enemy.

Cam Alvarez is lost in the depths of the galaxy…and the only way home is through a horde of alien monsters. Cam and the others in the task force have followed Zan Thint through the Predecessor Gateway to another spiral arm of the galaxy. There, they are stranded…unless they can find another of the gateways. Following the trail of the Predecessors, who’d fled our space millennia ago, they discover one lost civilization after another…but will they find the Predecessors?

Four complete books. Explosive, military sci-fi action completes the entire second arc of the best-selling Drop Trooper Series.

Go to war or go to jail. For small-time street hustler Cam Alvarez, the choice is simple.... He has no family, no friends, no place in the world...nothing to lose. When his latest con results in the death of a cartel hit man, Cam opts to join the Marines and leave Earth to fight a vicious alien enemy. Drafted into the Marine Drop-Troopers, Cam discovers there’s one thing he’s even better at than running street-con games, and that’s killing the enemy.

So close to home... And yet farther away than ever. Cam, Vicky, and the others follow the jump gate line into the Reconstructor systems, hoping to find the Northwest Passage back to Earth…back home. Instead, they find death and destruction. And an ancient mystery.

Cameron Alvarez and the crew of the Orion are hot on the trail of the Seekers, following the Predecessor faction on their quest to find the source of the Skrela infestation. But the crew is close to the breaking point, and their commander, Colonel Hachette, is long past it. The death of Sgt. Major Campbell has left him devastated and unable to lead.

The war is over...or that's what everyone thinks. Cam knows better. The Skrela are wiped out, but only Cam and Vicky know the truth, that Dwight and the other AI like him created the monstrous enemy to destroy the Predecessors. Burdened with this terrible secret, Cam must somehow maintain the tenuous peace between the humans and the Tahni until he and his Marines can return home.

Jack Bennet returns from the war to find the life he left behind has moved on without him. The only option he has to make ends meet lies in a military surplus junkyard starship. What’s a former Combat Search and Rescue soldier to do? Fix up the ship, hire the cheapest pilot—a notorious drunk—and take the first contract that comes up: collect a bounty on one of the most ruthless killers in the Pirate Worlds, a place crawling with thieves, cutthroats and con artists whose primary language is violence. Jack must abandon his nice guy persona, or exploit it, if he is to survive.

Von Außerirdischen entführt und für Jahrzehnte eingefroren. Charlie Travers denkt, dass sein Leben nicht viel schlimmer werden kann. Er lebt über einer Pizzeria, hat seine Freundin verloren und keine Aussicht auf eine Karriere.

For Vicky Sandoval, home is wherever the she and Cam can make a life together, whether that’s back in the Commonwealth or right there in this strange new part of the galaxy. But the only way for any of them to find a home is to hunt down the mysterious Seekers, the faction of the ancient alien Predecessors who were tracking the source of the mindless Skrela war drones which had chased them off Earth tens of thousands of years ago. The Seekers have the gate and, just as importantly, they know where to find the demonic Skrela and put an end to them.

Jack Schafer followed his greatest enemy through a wormhole—and stranded himself on the wrong side of the galaxy. Lost on a brutal alien world of dinosaurs, rebels, and empires built on stolen god-tech, Jack is cut off from Earth, from his allies, and from the woman he loves. But survival is the easy part. Archon Draven is still alive. Still plotting. And now he's found something far worse than an army... an emperor as competent and ruthless as he is.

Jack Schafer saved Earth by accident. Saving his newly adopted home, Dravos, won't be any easier. Dravos has fallen into a new star system, sunlight blazing down on a civilization that's never known day or night. Its people are terrified. Its nobles are plotting. Its king wants answers Jack doesn't have. And the Archon Draven—the centuries-old tyrant Jack thought he'd disposed of—is recovering in the mountains, preparing for his next move. With rebellion spreading and old enemies becoming uneasy allies, Jack, Lisa, and Erik must hold a fragile kingdom together long enough to strike back.