Written by David Sherman and Dan Cragg - Audio book performed by John Bedford Lloyd - Abridged Fiction - 2 CASSETTES - 2 hours

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (January 2003)

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The truth is out. No longer are the Skinks just a horrible secret haunting the Marines of Company L. Now the aliens are all-too-real invaders whose savage attacks have devastated planet Kingdom, a world of squabbling religions where the men of the 34th FIST confront a desperate situation. Cities that haven’t already been reduced to rubble are under siege, while starving refugees roam the land. And still the Skinks come, rising from stinking primordial swamps to slake their thirst for slaughter, armed with an uncanny ability to locate the enemy and with weapons so deadly that a single blast can drop a warplane or a decimate a squad.

It’s painfully evident that 34th FIST is no match for these near-invincible killers, which is why third platoon’s been ordered to whip the citizens of Kingdom into fighting shape. With their backs to the wall and time running out, there’s only one way the Marines can turn these timid, quarrelsome men into warriors: Take the battle to the enemy. It’s a brilliant strategy, sure to succeed–if it doesn’t get them killed first.

About the Authors: David Sherman is a former United States Marine and the author of eight previously published novels about Marines in Vietnam where he served as an infantryman and as a member of a Combined Action Platoon.

Dan Cragg enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1958 and retired with the rank of sergeant major twenty-two years later. During his army service, Mr. Cragg served more than 11 years in overseas stations, five and a half of them in Vietnam. He is the author of Inside the VC and the NVA (with Michael Lee Lanning), Top Sergeant (with William G. Bainbridge) and a Vietnam War Novel, The Soldier's Prize.

About the Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd has appeared in numerous feature films including Nixon, Philadelphia, The Abyss and Trading Places. He has also guest starred on the television shows L.A. Law and Law and Order.