A Del Rey Mass Market Original
Written by David Sherman & Dan Cragg
Copyright 2006 by David Sherman and Dan Cragg
Excerpt from Flashfire copyright 2006 by David Sherman and Dan Cragg
In Pointblank - the second of the Force Recon books - a Confederation army is cut off on the planet Ravenette by a dozen aggressive Secessionist Coalition worlds. A detachment of resourceful Marines, Fourth Force Recon Company is sent to deal with it.
Since we are dealing with several different armies with lots of characters in the book, it is often hard to determine which side you are reading about when the book changes point of view. Sometimes you can only tell the point of view of which army you are reading about by the speech patterns of who is talking - with the locals having a less than literate style of talking. It was rather frustrating for me that the general in charge of the Confederation army does not like the Marines in general and was often not giving the Marines the respect, support, and leadership they needed to accomplish their mission. The ending is also a little unsatisfying to me in that there does not seem to be a definitive resolution to the conflict.
Pancho
All people smile in the same language.
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