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Blood Contact

Book 4 of the Starfist series

Through three centuries of interstellar travel, intelligent alien life- forms had never been encountered . . . until now.

When a scientific team exploring an obscure planet fails to make its regular communications check, the Marines of third platoon are sent to investigate. They prepare for a routine rescue operation, but what they find on Society 437 is a horror beyond description. Only a handful of ragtag pirates who were in the wrong place at the very worst time have survived, and there is little trace of the scientists.

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What happened to the scientists? Why have the pirates been spared?

Gunnery Sergeant Bass and the men of third platoon are about to find out,

and the answer carries a terrifying implication for the Marines—and the entire human race.

Genre
aliens and first contactscience fictionmilitary science fictionwar and militaryadventure
Themes
music
Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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