Book description
Planet by planet, galaxy by galaxy, the inhabited universe has fallen
to the alien Xul…
Now only one obstacle stands between them and total domination: the
warriors of a resilient race the world-devourers nearly annihilated
centuries ago . . .
A power vast, ancient, and terrifying, the mighty Xul have lost track
of the insignificant humans hundreds of years after devastating their
home world-which has enabled the United Star Marines to operate
unnoticed and unhindered. A near-autonomous intergalactic policing
force, they battle in defense of an Earth they may not live to see
again. Now, following the trail of a vanished twenty-fourth-century
transport, they are journeying through an unexplored stargate to the
edge of an unknown galaxy many light years from their sun. For the last,
best, and only chance to defeat the tyrants of the universe may at long
last be at hand . . . “Douglas knows his SF.” Publishers Weekly Ian
Douglas is the author of the popular military SF series The Heritage
Trilogy, The Legacy Trilogy, and The Inheritance Trilogy. A former naval
corpsman, he lives in Pennsylvania.
