The Last Marines

This series starts in the late 21st Century but ends up in the 25th Century when humanity has spread across the stars.  

Book #1 - Gods of War

    The mission was supposed to be his last.   After more than twenty years in special operations, USMC Gunnery Sergeant Wolf Mathison wasn’t looking forward to retirement when—implanted with an experimental artificial intelligence—he deployed on his last mission with a platoon of Marine Raiders being sent to the Jovian moon Europa.   The USS Jefferson was destroyed en route, though, and only Mathison and three other Marines survived. Trapped in stasis, they were hurled into the outer reaches of the solar system, where they wouldn’t be found for hundreds of years.   Meanwhile, on Earth, the United States is destroyed and a fascist regime rises to power, expanding into the galaxy to plant its boot heel on the necks of humanity. But SOG, the Social Organizational Governance, is not unopposed, and researchers at a top-secret research outpost are working on a solution that will let SOG reign supreme. Unfortunately for the Marines, they’re awakened from stasis at the same time the researchers awaken a threat that endangers the entire human race.   The odds are against them, but that’s nothing new for the Marine Raiders.   Semper Fidelis and Semper Invictus!    

Book #2 - Darkness Rising

Marines never leave their own behind. Betrayed by the Republic, Mathison and his Marines are separated. Hunted by the Republic, the SOG, and the vanhat, they have nowhere to turn but to each other.   Having stowed away aboard a Governance troop transport, Mathison and Stathis escape to a SOG planet and discover the Governance has planned an ambush for the Republic. Meanwhile, Levin and Winters clash with Republic hunter-killer teams and barely escape with their lives. Wanted by all sides, the Marines have no allies and no way to find each other.   As the SOG prepares to ambush the Republic in the Zhukov system, the Marines and Aesir clash, and the vanhat prepare to slaughter everyone who survives.   The Marines have set their rally point at the gates of hell, and nothing will stand in their way. Let the bodies hit the floor.    

Book #3 - Gates of Hell

Marines never leave their own behind.   Betrayed by the Republic, Mathison and his Marines are separated. Hunted by the Republic, the SOG, and the vanhat, they have nowhere to turn but to each other.   Having stowed away aboard a Governance troop transport, Mathison and Stathis escape to a SOG planet and discover the Governance has planned an ambush for the Republic. Meanwhile, Levin and Winters clash with Republic hunter-killer teams and barely escape with their lives. Wanted by all sides, the Marines have no allies and no way to find each other.   As the SOG prepares to ambush the Republic in the Zhukov system, the Marines and Aesir clash, and the vanhat prepare to slaughter everyone who survives.   The Marines have set their rally point at the gates of hell, and nothing will stand in their way. Let the bodies hit the floor.        

Book #4 - Revolution Calling

Divided we fall…       Mathison and his Marines have been reunited, and they’ve found unlikely allies in their mission to save humanity, which is currently tearing itself apart. SOG systems are rebelling, the Republic wants to run away… and then there’s the whole invasion of the vanhat they have to contend with.   The Last Marines have a new weapon, but it’s Republic technology, and the Republic forces are going to take it with them when they flee. So even though the Republic has betrayed the Marines, they must find and warn the Republic fleet… and do whatever it takes to get their hands on the technology. The Marines have one chance to save the Republic, but time—and the rest of humanity—is against them.   Surrounded by people he doesn’t trust—including a SOG commissar and troops from the Republic—Mathison will have to forge them into a team and track down the Republic before they leave… or humanity is doomed.    

Book #5 - Genocide of Mankind

Humanity rests on the razor’s edge of extinction!     The odds are against Mathison and his Marines. The Republic has abandoned them, and the Governance has collapsed. The vanhat are sweeping through human space almost unopposed, crushing the few humans still scattered throughout the ruins of the Governance.   While some survivors seek to rally and rescue who they can, the Governance has retreated to Sol, where it cowers behind its countless automated weapons platforms, closing itself off from the rest of the galaxy. Unfortunately, the enemy has already breached the line and is just waiting its time to strike.   But Marines don’t give up. There is a rumor that researchers have discovered a weapon that can be used against the vanhat, and the Marines must infiltrate a vanhat-infested SOG star base to recover the secret location of the research facility.   Hunted, will the Marines discover the weapon they need, or are they running into the trap that will be the end of them?    

Book #6 - Valhalla Awaits

Valhalla Awaits!   The vanhat are within the walls, and mankind’s days are numbered.   Mathison has a desperate plan. A suicide mission. Infiltrate fortress Sol to shut off the defenses long enough for a d-bomb strike to kill the vanhat invaders.   But time is running out as the vanhat close their trap on the Alliance survivors.   The demon Nasaraf has marked their souls for his master, and he is coming to claim them.   Ragnarök awaits, and Valhalla will not be denied.    

Other Books and Series under construction

Colonel Commissar Series Set in the Last of the Marines world, this story takes places before the collapse of the Governance.   Shing Feng left home to be a warrior of the fledgeling Social Organizational Governance. To honor his parents, Feng joins the ODT, Orbital Drop Troopers and fights his way to glory and honor for the glory of Humanity.   Never Quit.

Haberdash

The Social Organizational Governance has many black projects, but this one has the potential to annihilate the Vapaus Republic.   Skadi must discover what is going on and stop it. Her path will cross with Sif, Feng and the Golden Horde as humanity comes close to unleashing a threat that can destroy the human race.    

Fall of Asgard

This event chronicles the fall and flight of the Vapaus Republic and the loss of their homeworld. The legendary Sif. The mysterious Aesir warrior who led the attack through the gauntlet of Earth to avenge the Republic home world. Her name is a curse word on the lips of every Governance citizen.   SOG calls her the ogre. If they only knew.   This is her story.  

The Collective

The Marines may have saved Sol from a vanhat invasion, but the war is not over. The vanhat are not the only enemy lurking in the dark, plotting the genocide of humanity. . . .   President Becket was not alone.