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Starstrike: Operation Orion (Starstrike) | 
 enlarge | Author: Douglas Niles
Publisher: Del Rey
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 282191
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0345490428
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345490421
ASIN: 0345490428
Publication Date: March 25, 2008
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Product Description
SEALS–America’s best just got better.
On the heels of a bloody first contact comes Earth’s most important diplomatic mission in history: a summit meeting with the three alien empires vying for control of the galaxy. Assurance that Earth’s first extraterrestrial ambassadors aboard the spaceship Pangaea will be safe means little to Lieutenant Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. After all, a job’s a job. As escorts on the voyage, Jackson and his sixteen-man team of new-breed Navy SEALS (Sea, Air, Land, and Space) must be neither seen nor heard. Unless, of course, the op hits the fan.
While Jackson and his team respond to a distress call from an allied fleet, the Pangaea, with all its diplomatic passengers, goes missing, forcing the SEALS to follow the trail to an ice moon at the edge of the galaxy, a harsh environment crawling with crack commandos and hostile enemies. But for these warriors with their outrageous firepower, what seems an impossible quest is just another day in deep space.
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 don't bother June 6, 2008
MartyM (Lexington, KY)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you never read a book before and you think that military men have a great and profound rapport and are all saints and that in every fire fight the good guys beat the bad guys and are barely wounded you might enjoy this. Else not. and by the way there are no women in this group.
 Brain candy only May 31, 2008
R. Worth
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This story is writen for 12 yr olds. The good guys always win. The bad guys always lose. You have the inevitable good guys that get killed or hurt that cause the rest of the good guys to push on and win. This happens in almost all the "encounters". If you want a quick feel good story go ahead and read it. If you want a developed story line and characters, save your money.
It's awful. May 19, 2008
Donald Rumsfeldich (Das Boot)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Reads like it was written by a 6th grader and then edited by chimps. I gave up on it half way through because of weak plot, lame shallow characters, typo's etc. If Dan Simmons is a 10 this is a minus 3. It's awful.
Juvenile Writing Style April 27, 2008
D. Collier (San Diego, CA)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is one of the exceptionally rare books that is just so badly written that I put it down without finishing it. I plowed through about a third of the book, but just couldn't take any more of the cookie cutter dialogue (one of the worst attempts at a bombastic military "dressing down" I've ever encountered), embarrassingly bad attempts at justification of technology, odd and inconsistent terminology (SEALS, SEALs, SEALSs? Yuck.), and just plain bad plot lines. This book reflects the sort of writing I'd expect from a 14 year old amateur author writing stories in his class notebook.
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