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The alien forces known as the Lankies are gathering on the solar system’s edge, consolidating their conquest of Mars and setting their sights on Earth. The far-off colony of New Svalbard, cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Lanky blockade, teeters on the verge of starvation and collapse. The forces of the two Earth alliances have won minor skirmishes but are in danger of losing the war. For battle-weary staff sergeant Andrew Grayson and the ragged forces of the North American Commonwealth, the fight for survival is entering a catastrophic new phase.

Forging an uneasy alliance with their Sino-Russian enemies, the NAC launches a hybrid task force on a long shot: a stealth mission to breach the Lanky blockade and reestablish supply lines with Earth. Plunging into combat against a merciless alien species that outguns, outmaneuvers, and outfights them at every turn, Andrew and his fellow troopers could end up cornered on their home turf, with no way out and no hope for reinforcement. And this time, the struggle for humanity’s future can only end in either victory or annihilation.

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“Frontlines is earnest, optimistic, and fun, even as it deals with subject matter that’s intrinsically grim. It’s a story that strikes the perfect balance between escapism and serious reflection, and it’s the perfect military sci-fi series to escape into for a week or two.” —The Verge

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Marko Kloos was born and raised in Germany, in and around the city of Münster. In the past, he was a soldier, bookseller, freight dockworker, and corporate IT administrator before he decided that he wasn’t cut out for anything other than making up stuff for a living. He writes primarily science fiction and fantasy, his favorite genres since his youth, when he spent most of his allowance on German sci-fi pulp serials. He resides in New Hampshire with his wife, two children, and a roving pack of vicious dachshunds.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ 47North (21 April 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Marko Kloos was born in Germany and raised in and around the city of Münster. In the past, he was a soldier, bookseller, freight dock worker, and corporate IT administrator before he decided that he wasn't good at anything except making up stuff for fun and profit.

Marko writes primarily science fiction and fantasy, his first genre love ever since his youth when he spent his allowance mostly on German SF pulp serials. He's the author of the bestselling Frontlines series of military science fiction as well as the upcoming Palladium Wars. He likes bookstores, kind people, October in New England, fountain pens, and wristwatches.

Marko lives in New Hampshire with his wife, two children, and roving pack of voracious dachshunds.

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I absolutely love this series.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2017

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I read quite a lot of sci-fi, and I think it's been a long time since I've read anything quite as good as this. This is book three in a series which charts the story arc of humanity as it goes from squabbling space-faring juveniles to having to face down a serious external threat. Each of the first two books felt like complete stories, but by the end of book 2, the first shoe had dropped, and it was definitely time that the other hit the floor...

The book is set in a fledgling human empire that's overstretched and overtaxing its citizens in order to create sufficient colony space to move out all the massively overcrowded PRC citizens on Earth. Out in a desolate unwanted system, two moons are run by competing human factions. One of them: New Svalbard is basically a ball of ice, useful for water which is reaction fuel and for life in space. Perched on this ice ball, far too many soldiers have been marooned without hope of rescue. Supplies are running out, people are getting angry, but a great victory has been won. Unfortunately for the victors, their celebrations are short-lived, as an old threat emerges from the jump point....

Unfortunately for humanity, another civilisation seems to be seeking expansion and at the rate they're going, humanity's going to be a footnote to history unless someone comes up with an effective strategy. The strategy that the guys in Book 2 came up with is good, but costly... They need something bigger and better. Unfortunately, there's no way to tell anyone else about it, and for all they know, there IS nobody else....

I thought the first two books were good, but holy cow, this one had me turning pages at a rate I don't normally read. While things have been nicely beefing up, the characters have been very true to type so far. However, under a completely different set of pressures, the characters are forced to consider new solutions and new courses of action. They take some pretty drastic action to try and save themselves, their friends, and possibly humanity, which puts them on a collision course with their own people. The tension is massive, and for most of the book, the looming sword of Damocles has been "but if they get home, their goose is cooked anyway!"

The writing is simply excellent, the pacing, setting, and everything are immaculate. The descriptions of the battle scenes, the settings and descriptions of what the characters are going through are perfectly done. My only minor gripe is that occasionally the scientific terminology is strained a little; but by taking a little license you can easily look past that.

The series has quite clearly become an arc, and this feels very much like a 'main sequence' book in the ascent of the 'action' part of the arc. We've got all the players in place, and the situation is set... It's time to smash big things together...

Excellent from beginning to end, I absolutely loved this book, and have already got 3/4 of the way through book 4!

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Good character development, poor story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2017

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I was a little torn writing this review. There's some fantastic character development here for main cast, but the story is a little naff, and spends most of the story bouncing between two systems repeating itself or filling in loose ends with single paragraphs, in contrast to the other novels which are faster paced. It all builds to a crescendo which is over in a few pages and an epilogue. Some of the more complex characters disappear or die with little ceremony. Still I'm invested enough to pick up the 4th installment.

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mnemonic

Good series, better than most in this genre

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2019

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This is your typical dystopian earth seeks colonies, but colonies meet hostile aliens. The series descends into a series of military conflicts that get progressively more repetitive. The saving grace is the better than average writing skills. I believe the series extends to 6 books, but I doubt I will stay the course. Good characters, but once the military action gets overly excessive, I invariably start to lose interest in the story. So far so good, but...

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Another good read from Marko Kloos

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2017

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I'm really enjoying this series and very much looking forward to reading more about our hero, Andrew Grayson. The only slight negative to this one is that it has the feeling of the middle part of a trilogy: there's plenty happening but it feels as if it's setting the scene for what's to follow.

I've been reading a lot of fiction lately by authors I've not come across before - some new and some, apparently, not so new. Inevitably there have been one or two duds amongst them but Marko Kloos is certainly one to keep an eye on, I believe. I just hope Grayson and Halley get a break before too long - they deserve to be spending a bit more time together.

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JPS

Exciting, formulaic and partly incredible

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2015

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This, which is instalment three of the series, is an exciting book to read, but only if you have read the two previous titles. Otherwise, you will be rather lost, will miss a lot of the background, and will find that many of the characters that appear in this volume are poorly described, partly because the reader will have meet them before. The bottom line here is that this is NOT a standalone book.

My second problem with this title is not so much the first person writing in itself. Although some reviewers make no bones in disliking this, I do not really mind, when it works well. The issue here is that he does not always work out well, although I will refrain from giving specific examples in order to avoid spoilers. A related “stylistic” point is the overuse of dialogues where the characters speak in acronyms, most of which are even explained in this volume. I counted up to six per page and could not help finding this rather annoying at times. This could have been mitigated if the author had replicated the little annex he came up for one of the previous titles. Unfortunately, he did not bother to do so.

Then there is the story itself. Our hero, his mates and friends, and the task force to which he belongs and which has been fighting another bloc (Sino-Russians, of course) are stranded far away from Earth and the Solar System which is being threatened by ruthless aliens bent on destroying the human race. The North American Commonwealth’s elites are, of course, corrupt, incompetent and interested in saving their own skins rather than fighting the Aliens that have already destroyed the human colonies and bases on Mars and killed millions. I don’t need and do not want to tell the rest: it is painfully obvious. The last feature, with our hero, his girlfriend – well, more than that in fact – and his favourite squadron leader will, of course, join the forces of “good” to defend Earth (and Detroit in particular!) and its downtrodden populations against the terrible aliens just like that…

Three stars for what was an exciting but also a shallow read.

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