ABOUT THE AUTHORS
D
AVID
S
HERMAN
is a former U.S. Marine and the author of eight novels about Marines in Vietnam, where he served as an infantryman and as a member of a Combined Action Platoon. He is also the author of the military fantasy series Demontech. Visit the author’s website at
www.novelier.com.
D
AN
C
RAGG
enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1958 and retired with the rank of sergeant major twenty years later. He is the author of
Inside the VC and the NVA
(with Michael Lee Lanning),
Top Sergeant
(with William G. Bainbridge), and a Vietnam War novel,
The Soldier’s Prize
. He recently retired from his work as an analyst for the Department of Defense.
By David Sherman and Dan Cragg
Starfist
FIRST TO FIGHT
SCHOOL OF FIRE
STEEL GAUNTLET
BLOOD CONTACT
TECHNOKILL
HANGFIRE
KINGDOM’S SWORDS
KINGDOM’S FURY
LAZARUS RISING
A WORLD OF HURT
FLASHFIRE
FIRESTORM
Starfist: Force Recon
BACKSHOT
POINTBLANK
STAR WARS: JEDI TRIAL
By David Sherman
The Night Fighters
KNIVES IN THE NIGHT
MAIN FORCE ASSAULT
OUT OF THE FIRE
A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
A NGHU NIGHT FALLS
CHARLIE DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
THERE I WAS: THE WAR OF CORPORAL HENRY J. MORRIS, USMC
THE SQUAD
Demontech
GULF RUN
ONSLAUGHT
RALLY POINT
By Dan Cragg
Fiction
THE SOLDIER’S PRIZE
Nonfiction
A DICTIONARY OF SOLDIER TALK
GENERALS IN MUDDY BOOTS
INSIDE THE VC AND THE NVA (with Michael Lee Lanning)
TOP SERGEANT (with William G. Bainbridge)
Starfist: Firestorm
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2007 by David Sherman and Dan Cragg
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
D
EL
R
EY
is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sherman, David.
Firestorm / David Sherman and Dan Cragg.
p. cm.—(Starfist; bk. 12)
1. Marines—Fiction. 2. Life on other planets—Fiction. I. Cragg, Dan. II. Title.
PS3569.H4175F56 2007
813'.54—dc22 2006036422
eISBN: 978-0-345-50050-2
v3.0