Starfist School of Fire, David Sherman
Starfist School of Fire, David Sherman
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Starfist: School of Fire

Author: David Sherman, Dan Cragg

Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd

Abridged: 2 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/26/2001

Synopsis

Combat, betrayal, and murder at the edge of human space . . .

Deployed to assist the oligarchs of Wanderjahr in putting down a rebellion that threatens the planet's political and economic stability, the Marines must fight two wars at the same time . . . one against the resourceful, well-led guerrillas and another with the entrenched police bureaucracy.

But who is the real enemy and who can be trusted? On Wanderjahr, nothing is as it seems—not even the animal life—and everyone has his own agenda. Inexorably, the Marines of the 34th FIST are drawn deeper and deeper into the politics of a world where murder, terror, and betrayal are the accepted methods of government . . . and everyone is ripe for an old-fashioned butt-kickin'.

About The Author

David Sherman is a former United States Marine and author of eight previously published novels about Marines in Vietnam, where he served as an infantryman and as a member of a Combined Action Platoon. He is an alumnae of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and worked as a sculptor for many years before turning to writing. Along the way he has held a variety of jobs, mostly supervisory and managerial. Today he is a full-time writer. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.Dan Cragg enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1958 and retired with the rank of sergeant major twenty-two years later. During his Army service, Mr. Cragg served more than eleven years in overseas stations, five and a half of them in Vietnam. He is the author of Inside the VC and NVA (with Michael Lee Lanning), Top Sargeant (with William G. Bainbridge), and a Vietnam War novel, The Soldier's Prize. In real life Mr. Cragg is an analyst for the Defense Department. He and his wife, Sunny live in Virginia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William on September 14, 2022

School of Fire, StarFist 2 by David Sherman and Dan Cragg This book stands alone just fine. It has been over a decade since I read the first one so it is good this stands alone. There was no backstory which annoys me as I think that is important but it didn’t matter. The Marines are asked by a planet......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on May 04, 2018

I was a little less enamored of the second book of the Starfist series because of its setting and mission. There was less organized conflict in this entry, as the marines were brought in to train the local militia (Feldpolizei) on an oligarchical German Protestant plantation world populated by dinos......more

Goodreads review by Red on October 19, 2022

Entertaining definitely picks up the pace from the last book.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on June 27, 2018

a lot more digestible than the first book. characters becoming a little more realistic. plot still fairly jumpy though.......more

Goodreads review by Kate on February 14, 2017

It has been a while since I read the first book in the Starfist series but from what I remember both of these novels are pretty consistent in what they do well and what they can’t quite get right. Military Sci Fi typically hangs around one of two places in the spectrum of genre, either the author wa......more

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