Double Jeopardy (Starfist) - Tapa dura

Released from quarantine upon Earth's discovery of the alien Skink threat, Lieutenant Bass and his men of the 34th FIST unit struggle with internal limitations while planning to locate and invade the Skink home world, an effort that is influenced by a suspicious report from the remote planet of IshTar.

David Sherman is a former U.S. Marine and the author of eight novels about Marines in Vietnam, where he served as an infantryman and as a member of a Combined Action Platoon. He is also the author of the military fantasy series Demontech.

Dan Cragg enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1958 and retired with the rank of sergeant major twenty-two years later. 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. He recently retired from his work as an analyst for the Department of Defense.