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Ian Douglas
The Heritage Trilogy Books 1–3
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SEMPER MARS
BOOK ONE OF THE HERITAGE TRILOGY
IAN DOUGLAS
Contents
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Prologue
“Christ, CJ! You can’t let them do this to us!”
One
This wasn’t the first time the Marines had ventured into…
Two
“How’s it working now?” Garroway asked, slipping into the seat…
Three
Kaitlin Garroway took the second-floor door out of Herb Simon…
Four
Sergeant Gary Bledsoe, USMC, stood at his sandbag-encircled post on…
Five
“Snakebite, this is Basket. Excalibur. I say again, Excalibur.”
Six
“All right, people!” Colonel Lloyd bellowed. “Listen up! We got…
Seven
Kaitlin Garroway peered out the cabin window at a sky…
Eight
“I never thought I’d see the day,” Garroway said, “when…
Nine
The last pale glow of the sunset had long since…
Ten
It was just past midnight, the time of the day…
Eleven
Most of the Marines in the barracks area were asleep.
Twelve
“I talked to Doc Casey,” Garroway told the others at…
Thirteen
“So, you got your lines down?” Garroway asked. It was…
Fourteen
It had been eight days since Kaitlin had seen Yukio,…
Fifteen
According to the data displayed on the seatback screen, the…
Sixteen
It was, Garroway thought, one of the oddest-looking marches in…
Seventeen
Mark Garroway watched his daughter’s face on the Mars cat’s…
Eighteen
The president looked a lot older now than he had…
Nineteen
The Star Eagle Michael E. Thornton, a single-stage-to-orbit SCRAMjet transport,…
Twenty
“So,” Mark Garroway said in what he’d intended to be…
Twenty-One
“Cheyenne Mountain, Shepard,” Colonel Dahlgren said, peering into the telescopic…
Twenty-Two
They’d broken out of the narrow canyon that stretched across…
Twenty-Three
Thirty hours after the MMEF’s triumphant return to Mars Prime,…
Twenty-Four
“Down!” Caswell cried, throwing herself facedown into the sand. “We’re…
Twenty-Five
Kaitlin was on the floor in the den playing chess…
Epilogue
Marine Lieutenant Kaitlin Garroway walked through the automatic doors of…
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PROLOGUE
MONDAY, 6 JUNE
Office of the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) The Pentagon, Washington, DC 0950 hours EDT
“Christ, CJ! You can’t let them do this to us!”
General Montgomery Warhurst teetered between radically opposing strategies, storming and pleading. The five-star admiral seated behind the broad and brightly polished oak desk before him was not only his commanding officer, but his
