- Hangfire
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name = Hangfire
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author =Dan Cragg &David Sherman
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country =United States
language = English
series =StarFist
genre =Science fiction novel
publisher =Del Rey Books
release_date = 2000
media_type = PrintPaperback
pages = 346 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-345-43592-3
preceded_by =TechnoKill
followed_by =Kingdom's Swords Hangfire is the sixth novel of the military
science fiction StarFist Saga, written byDavid Sherman andDan Cragg . This installment of Starfist contains three significant and independent plots, one involving members of third platoon, Company L, and the second involves Brigadier Sturgeon, the FIST commander. In the third plotline, the alien race called by the Marines "Skinks" are shown conducting operations of their own.Plot summary
Three Marines of Company L are sent on a secret mission to the mob-controlled resort world of Havanagas. Lance Corporals Claypoole and Dean – under the command of Corporal Pasquin – are to establish proof of mob control; proof that Confederation law enforcement agents have not been able to secure, so that the gangsters can be brought to justice.
Brigadier Sturgeon, the FIST commander, ostensibly goes on leave. Instead of vacationing he travels to Marine Corps Headquarters on Earth to find out why 34th FIST seems to have been quietly "quarantined," with nobody being rotated out of the unit, even though it is considered a hardship post. This potentially career-endangering "back channel" trip reveals some very scary facts.
In the third plotline the Skinks visit a world only partially explored by humans and find a pre-technological sentient race. The Skinks immediately take captives to use as laborers. The Skinks then invade Kingdom, a human occupied world.
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