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Zero Dead [MultiFormat]
eBook by Ken Rand
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  In two dozen fire fights on a dozen worlds, nobody has ever died under Field Sergeant George "Harry" Horiuchi's command, a Colonial Marine Corps record. His final mission--a rock-to-rock hunt in a lava field maze on a colony world for six heavily armed Shoki regulars--leaves four wounded by his zero dead record intact. He bids his squad a last good-bye and rides his 'loper, the native horse-like creature, alone across the lava field toward the shuttle launch base and retirement. The trip is uneventful. Until...
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Cosmic Debris, 1995
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [201 KB], eReader (PDB) [28 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [14 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [14 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [75 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [86 KB], hiebook (KML) [43 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [39 KB], iSilo (PDB) [12 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [15 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [43 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [24 KB]
Words: 4131
Reading time: 11-16 min.
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The new guy, Private Looney, but nobody remembered his real name, said: "I heard a dozen rumors so far about how come the Sarge ain't had any fatalities in his squad." He snorted and shook his head in awe. "I figured it was cause his outfit didn't see no action. Till this mission." She started to spit, thought better of it. Not indoors.
The air conditioner hummed softly in the company's tiny mess inflatable. The ports were double-sealed against the heat of the late morning sun burning off the jagged volcanic rock and the annoying buzz of puffer flies. "Sarge don't encourage talk about it, Shoki-breath," Keel said. "So you best stifle unless you want to be the first fatality."
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