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Author: Anderson, Taylor
Brand: Roc
Color: Multicolor
Edition: Reissue
Binding: mass_market
Format: Deckle Edge
Number Of Pages: 480
Release Date: 03-05-2016
Part Number: 23910258
Details: Product Description
New York Times bestselling author Taylor Anderson’s phenomenal series of alternate history continues as a dangerous scheme throws the hope of honor, trust, and survival into chaos....
Transported to an alternate version of earth where WWII no longer rages, Matt Reddy and the crew of the Asiatic Fleet destroyer USS Walker
have been trying to find their place in a strange new world—only to now face a game-changing conspiracy.
Reddy and his crew fight alongside the felinoid Lemurians and Imperial allies to keep the reptilian Grik, a race growing in supremacy, from reconquering the Lemurians’ ancestral home on Madagascar. But exhausted, far from reinforcements, and wildly outnumbered, the odds seem greater than ever before.
As for the fate of the Americas, Don Hernan and the evil Dominion have gathered to annihilate the forces behind the walls of Fort Defiance as a shadowy power with an agenda all its own rises with chilling resolve.
As the war teeters on a knife-edge, a tipping point may have been reached at last—and cold steel and hot-blooded valor will remain the ultimate weapons.
Review
Praise for the Destroyermen series “Taylor Anderson...[has] steamed to the forefront of alternative history.”—E. E. Knight, national bestselling author “A new, genuinely different ‘alternate Earth’ story.”—David Weber, New York Times bestselling author “Gripping and riveting...I look forward to the unfolding of this series and his subsequent work.”—S.M. Stirling, New York Times bestselling author “Pick up the Destroyermen series and kick back and enjoy.”—SFRevu “Action sci-fi doesn’t get significantly better than this.”—Booklist “Simply put, this is great stuff.”—Fresh Fiction
About the Author
Taylor Anderson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Destroyermen series, including Straits of Hell, Deadly Shores, and Storm Surge. A gunmaker and forensic ballistic archaeologist, Taylor has been a technical and dialogue consultant for movies and documentaries, and an award-winning member of the National Historical Honor Society and of the United States Field Artillery Association. He has a master’s degree in history and has taught that subject at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. He lives in nearby Granbury with his family.
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THE DESTROYERMEN SERIES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CAST OF CHARACTERS
(The following does not necessarily reflect initial or even final deployments, but only those most pertinent to the events described.)
See index for details of ships and equipment specifications.
Note:
(L)—Lemurians, or Mi-Anakka (People) are bipedal, somewhat felinoid folk with large eyes, fur, and expressive but nonprehensile tails. They are highly intelligent, social, and dexterous. It has been proposed that they are descended from the giant lemurs of Madagascar.
(G)—Grik, or Ghaarrichk’k, are bipedal reptilians reminiscent of various Mesozoic dromaeosaurids. Covered with fine downy fur, males develop bristly crests and tail plumage, and retain formidable teeth and claws. Grik society consists of two distinct classes, the ruling or industrious Hij, and the worker-warrior Uul. The basic Grik-like form is ubiquitous, and serves as a foundation for numerous unassociated races and species.
At “Grik City” Madagascar
USS Walker (DD-163)
Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Patrick Reddy, USNR—Commanding. CINCAF—(Commander in Chief of All Allied Forces).
Cmdr. Brad “Spanky” McFarlane—Exec. Minister of Naval Engineering.
Cmdr. Bernard Sandison—Torpedo Officer and Minister of Experimental Ordnance.
Lt. Tab-At, “Tabby” (L)—Engineering Officer.
Lt. Sonny Campeti—Gunnery Officer.
Lt. Ed Palmer—Signals.
Surgeon Lieutenant Pam Cross
Cmdr. Simon Herring—Office of Strategic Intelligence (OSI).
Ensign Laar-Baa-Ra (L)—PB-1B “Nancy” pilot.
Chief Quartermaster Patrick “Paddy” Rosen—Acting First Officer.
Chief Boatswain’s Mate Jeek
EAN: 9780451470621
Package Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 1.2 inches
Languages: English