Bøger af J F Holmes

In space, when you lose the high ground, you lose the war. Eleven years before, General David Warren was the best and brightest, in charge of defending the Earth from an attacking fleet. Over matched in battle, the Earth forces were devastated, and the enemy moved into the high ground and proceeded with orbital bombardment. Civilization fell, and then two years later, the enemy landed and the occupation began. Now Warren lives with his sister and nephew, trying to farm the land while avoiding detection by the occupiers, the Invy. When two travelers show up at his doorstep, his carefully constructed life starts to unravel. Humanity may be down, but not out.

When the Gate connecting America's first colony in the stars was shattered by a nuclear war back home, seventy thousand civilians found themselves dependent on the US Army's 9th Infantry Regiment for their survival. Barely had the shock of their cut off from Earth began to be understood when a long planned and ferocious assault was launched by their alien enemies, a genetically modified race of iron age barbarian creatures. Only by valiant effort and shedding precious human blood was disaster averted. Now that the immediate danger has passed, the colony and its leadership looks to survival. Expeditions are sent south to trail a defeated enemy and new allies are sought. As they try to cope, one last, desperate message from Earth arrives, bringing, if not help, then hope.

In far-away places of time and space, a young princess, of a land that maybe was or wasn't, is called on to save her friends and her mothers' throne. Ten year old Wilma, heir to the thrones of both powerful Northumberland and small Tuscana, splits her time between the two, spending winters with her father and summers with her mother. Shortly after her return to Tuscana, treachery makes her a captive in the hands of the Pirate King, who is intent on destroying Tuscana with the aid of supernatural allies. Wilma, along with her friends Duncan and Chrissa, must find a way to get back home and foil the Pirate King's bloodthirsty plans.

The first day of a war is easy, compared to what follows. Plans become undone, victory is in doubt, and your friends start falling, one by one. You have to have the heart to endure mind numbing loss, excruciating pain, overwhelming grief, and a tiredness that goes down to your soul. The battle to liberate Sol System has begun, with the Confederated Earth Forces launching a combined arms attack on one last, desperate throw of the dice. A decade of alien occupation has worn equipment out, devastated key personnel, and left the fighting forces a shell of what they once were. As the war rages on, the CEFS Lexington, Earth's last starship, executes a bold plan to take on impossible odds. At sea, heavy battleship guns duel with advanced plasma cannons, providing covering fire for the Marines to take back the West Coast. Armored columns battle on the Texas border, while shell shocked civilains deal with the problems of sudden freedom. In space, the Invy main base houses a horror thousands of years old, and the soldiers of the Irregular Scout Regiment prepare for their most challenging and daring mission yet: To raid into the very heart of the their enemy's defenses, and conduct a final, devastating blow. Invasion: Total War is the third and final book of the series, started with the Dragon Finalist Invasion: Resistance and continued in the highly acclaimed Invasion: Day of Battle.Excerpt: It was a smell he knew too well. Colonel Morgan McCargar sat patiently in the rubber zodiac boat, watching the plasma bolts go over his head, making his hair stand on end. Ozone, cordite, burnt flesh and blood.A silence fell, and a Marine peered over the edge of the pier, calling down, "All clear, Sir!" The Scotsman stood, and, with his Sergeant Major steadying him, climbed the ladder. He wanted to go first, but the Raiders wouldn't have let him, so he didn't bother even trying. His accent had almost disappeared in his thirty years of service, and he had seen far too many wars, but the scene in front of him drew a curse from his childhood. The remains of two Invy APC's sat burning, their iridium hulls glowing cherry red. More than two dozen Wolverines and three Dragons lay dead, mixed in with a half dozen human bodies. Figures in USMC digital camouflage ran past him and towards the far intersection. McCargar knelt by one of the human casualties, a pretty blonde woman with hole burned through her leg and blood on the front of her uniform. Her eyes fluttered open, and he yelled for a medic. She tried to say something, and he leaned close, holding her hand and telling her it would be OK. "Scout Team Five, Sir, LZ secured," she whispered, "so can we go the hell home now?" She drew in a deep breath and said faintly, "I've got a date..." There was a faint smile on her face, and then her eyes lost focus, staring into eternity. He closed them, but the ghost of the smile still remained on her beautiful face. "God, I hate this...," he muttered, then stood. His command staff was assembling radio antennas and the XO was managing the offloading of heavier weapons from the pier. "Sir, first wave is in, battalion commanders are establishing their CP's, and we've pushed out three blocks with no resistance," said his S-3. "That's not going to last. Hold there until we get more manpower onto the beach, and the dolphins bring across some heavier weapons. Push a recon team out forward to establish an OP as high up as they can go, some building with overwatch, but no radio, signal lights only. Get Charlie company into the sewers, ASAP, and have them push forward if they can, without detection. And try to get the battleships on the horn." They both could feel the vibrations under their feet as the huge shells impacted on the Invy positions, less than two miles to the west

For the first time in two hundred years an enemy has stepped foot on American soil and war has come to our cities. The US military is rocked back on its heels and driven into a fighting retreat as each defense line falls. The foe is unstoppable and ... Fae. Creatures from a legendary past who have come to reclaim the Earth in the name of magic and revenge.In the hills of Pennsylvania a ragtag, devastated army prepares to make a last stand against dragon fire capable of melting an Abrams tank and wizardry that stops fifth generation fighter jets in mid-air. Inevitably it comes down to shining steel verses human will, and Sergeant Oliva Acevedo transforms from a hospital clerk to a hardened fighter.Volume Two of the best selling "Fae Wars" follows the fighting retreat of the US Army as the Fae establish control of a shattered America.Praise for Fae Wars Volume One: OnslaughtJim Warren5.0 out of 5 stars This book has it all!Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2021Verified PurchaseWhat's your pleasure? Military Science Fiction, swords and sorcery, dungeons and dragons, fights against impossible odds? Would you like battles in New York City between soldiers and orcs, magic using elves riding dragons versus NYPD, sword, sorcery and automatic weapons? They are all there when man's world is invaded by an ancient foe. This book has it all. The best advice I can give you is this book is really cool and you have gotta read it. (And it looks like more to come!) Well done John and Lucas!