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Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the Solar System…

Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is North American Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson. He dreams of dropping out of the service one day, alongside his pilot girlfriend, but as warfare consumes entire planets and conditions on Earth deteriorate, he wonders if there will be anywhere left for them to go.

After surviving a disastrous space-borne assault, Grayson is reassigned to a ship bound for a distant colony—and packed with malcontents and troublemakers. His most dangerous battle has just begun.

In this sequel to the bestselling Terms of Enlistment, a weary soldier must fight to prevent the downfall of his species…or bear witness to humanity’s last, fleeting breaths.

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28 Jan. 2014
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“Much like Scalzi’s Old Man’s War and its sequels, Terms of Enlistment and Lines of Departure are combat-grade military SF, and should come with an addiction warning.” —io9

“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

About the Author

Marko Kloos is a novelist, freelance writer, and unpaid manservant to two small children. He is a graduate of the Viable Paradise SF/F Writers' Workshop.

Marko writes primarily science fiction and fantasy because he is a huge nerd and has been getting his genre fix at the library ever since he was old enough for his first library card. In the past, he has been a soldier, a bookseller, a freight dock worker, a tech support drone, and a corporate IT administrator.

A former native of Germany, Marko lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two children. Their compound, Castle Frostbite, is patrolled by a roving pack of dachshunds.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ 47North (28 Jan. 2014)
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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Jon

Top notch read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 February 2017

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There are those moments when you get the email from Amazon about a £1 book sale, and you think "I can't be arsed buying that crap", probably because your day is long, you're tired, and the internet tells you that cheap stuff is normally crap. And then there are those days when you feel a bit more positive so you have a look at the list...
That is what happened to me with these books.
I took a chance on a £1 book by a writer I had never heard of, and now I am a true believer.
This book is bloody good.
Book one was bloody good.
I have just purchased book 3 and I think that will also be bloody good.
Thank you Marko Kloos for such an awesome series.

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Tension ramping up to 11. Developing into a great series.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2017

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Having inhaled book 1 at lightning speed, I chewed my way through book 2 almost as fast. In the first book, the protagonists (a small group of newly passed-out junior officers and NCOs) in the space navy, with assorted friends in other services, run headlong into a new alien threat, barely escaping with their lives.

Book two charts the gradual defeat and overrun of the human outer colonies, and document humanity's attempts to resist and fight back. The main protagonist, Andrew, having been bored of being a neural net tech decides to change tack and become a "combat controller" (basically a one-man walking situation-room and planning strategist). He gets special kit, special armour and deference from the others. Having taken that track, he finds himself in a very small group of people with his skillset, and therefore finds himself being dropped behind enemy lines to control and coordinate strike missions on the alien-held planets far more than anyone else. He finds himself tasked as a liaison to some of his former colleagues on a mission to move them to garisson a frigid world known as New Svalbard, but doesn't realise that it's going to become a one-way-trip.

This book felt like the noose was tightening all the way through. Everyone is beginning to push their luck just a bit too far, and slowly but surely, the less lucky find themselves between hammer and anvil. As peoples luck begins to run out, the tensions starts to rise, and people start making silly decisions which leads to some very interesting situations. The whole book is a series of ever-worse situations. and the tenseness was excellent!

I can't recommend this series enough. The characters, plot, situations, pacing, writing and tone are all pretty much spot-on. Book 2 is even stronger than book 1, and by the end I simply didn't want to wait, so instantly began reading book 3. There is the occasional clicheed moment, but this is military sci-fi, so it's hard to avoid some stereotypes, sayings, or situations. Happily, the author seems aware of those, and tries to sidestep the worst offences.

If you haven't already been reading book 1, get it, and then read book 2.

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ESP

A Departure From The Original But Not In Quality - A Great Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2015

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After purchasing, I reserved this book for holiday reading – it's the only chance I get nowadays for intensive and, for the most part, uninterrupted reading. I am not sorry I did. I found it very entertaining and was swept along as the story unfolded.

I started out with SF and moved over to Fantasy, only dipping into the former occasionally in recent years. I suppose this means I am more easily pleased and not so jaded with the SF genre, but even so this sequel seems every bit as satisfying as the first novel even though much of it is, I have to admit, quite predictable. The style and content, plus a few surprises here and there, compensate for the fact that you just know our hero will survive to book 3...somehow.

Despite the main antagonists remaining as enigmatic and dauntingly formidable as ever, the whole adds up nicely with a good cross-section of the personal, the political, the tactical and the strategic – both good and bad. I have always been a fan of hard science and military stories, so this blend of the two is all grist to my mill and very satisfying. For me everything seems to hold together well...in spite of some lingering doubts about these 'Lankies' and their true nature. The human perspective and persistent ability to fight petty squabbles even in the face of obliteration seems to ring true. The tech and the tactics held up (for me) throughout, balancing the more personal and intimate aspects (though it's nice not to have to wade through chunks of 'obligatory' sex scenes). MarKo Kloos' ability to conjure up in the mind's eye landscapes far from what we are used to and tense military action is more than satisfactory.

I certainly intend to buy the third book to see how it all pans out. I may even do say after submitting this review.

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A. M. DAVIDSON

Good story - but I wish these authors would just read a couple of wikipedia articles on physics...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2019

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So frustrating. I am enjoying the story so far - but WHY can't these authors (self-described nerds!) take the trouble to read a couple of Wikipedia articles (or understand what their professed heroes in earlier hard SF have written) to grasp the difference between power and energy, to understand that weightlessness does not equal no gravity and no ability to sense acceleration, that constant thrust will not accelerate a much more massive object at the same g... that the kinetic energy of an accelerated spacecraft is derived from integrated the engine output - and 200 Gigatons equivalent impact energy is not attained from running the engine for couple of days. And as for being in awe of a 50 microton warhead on a missile... a micro ton is 1 gram. A missile with a 50 gram TNT equivalent warhead would not be that impressive...
4 stars for story, 0 stars for (high school) science and engineering.

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F10XDE

Better than the first

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2017

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I much preferred this novel to the first installment. And happy to say I've also just finished the 3rd too. The characters have imprinted me, despite being a little cliché, there's some scenes that don't go anywhere, such as the chief diner scene. I'd previously marked the first book down for arming our hero with keyboard, which he puts right in a few lazy paragraphs at the start of this book. Etherway felt this was a more consistant than the first book.

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