A World of Hurt (Starfist) - Tapa dura

Suspecting the alien Skinks in a series of fatal incidents plaguing the colony world of Maugham's Station, the 34th FIST is sent in to investigate, but the team gets more than they had bargained for when they uncover a predatory life form even stranger than the Skinks and a secret war between two human worlds. 25,000 first printing.

David Sherman 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. His website is at www.novelier.com. He is also the author of the military fantasy series, Demontech.

Dan Cragg 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 is an analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense.