Robert Buettner

Unos proyectiles disparados desde Ganímedes, una de las lunas de Júpiter, caen sobre la Tierra y pulverizan ciudades enteras. La Humanidad se juega el todo por el todo en un ataque desesperado. A bordo de una nave espacial construida con chatarra y equipada con armamento de la epoca de la guerra de Vietnam, unos huerfanos a los que nadie echara de menos deberan embarcarse en el primer viaje interplanetario del hombre con el objetivo de invadir Ganimedes. Solo tienen una oportunidad para atacar y una nave para hacerlo. Si fracasan, la Humanidad se vera abocada a la extincion.

Tras presenciar la muerte de sus tropas, así como la de su amante, el general Jason Wander, marcado por la lucha, está listo para la paz. Con tan solo veinticinco años ha luchado y vencido en el único conflicto contra alienigenas de la Humanidad. Ahora, tras muchos años en el espacio, vuelve a casa... ¿pero con que se encontrara? Empobrecidas por los estragos de la guerra y el gasto militar, las desesperadas naciones de la Tierra estan reduciendo drasticamente los presupuestos para Defensa. De repente, el asalto comienza y la Tierra es atacada. Para detener la invasion, a la Humanidad tan solo le queda una nave y un unico equipo de guerrilleros de asalto... un escuadron suicida liderado por Jason Wander. Robert Buettner nos sumerge en una mision espacial trepidante, repleta de accion y aventuras, en la que el fracaso significa la desaparicion de la especie humana.

A bordo de una nave espacial equipada con armamento de la época de la guerra de Vietnam, unos huérfanos a los que nadie echará de menos deberán embarcarse en el primer viaje interplanetario del hombre con el objetivo de invadir Ganímedes. Solo tienen una oportunidad.

Jasons army defeated the slugs on Bren and now, fifteen years later, he finds himself once more commanding an invasion force. This time they must expel the Slugs from a small moon, where they decimated the human inhabitants.And although Earth has finally begun to mobilise against the aggressors, a new and problematic faction has arisen. The totalitarian government of Tressel, a strategically-situated planet, is willing to defeat the Slugs at any cost - regardless of the human casualties.Unfortunately for Jason, his godson, Jude, is attracted to Tressels total-war policies. As the struggle continues, Jason is not only fighting for the survival of the human race, but for his relationship with the only family he has left.

When earth needs heroes, who will we call to valour? When flares streaking across the sky herald massive destruction, who will defend us? When mankinds enemy is beyond our worst imagination, we will need champions. And will we pick the brightest and the toughest - or the ones with nothing left to lose?WAR IS AN ORPHANAGEMankinds first alien contact tears into Earth: projectiles launched from Jupiters moon, Ganymede, vaporize whole cities. Under siege, humanity gambles on one desperate counterstrike. In a spacecraft scavenged from scraps and armed with twentieth-century weapons, foot soldiers like eighteen-year-old Jason Wander - orphans that no one will miss - must dare to embark on mans first interplanetary voyage and invade Ganymede.They have one chance to attack, one ship to attack with, Their failure is our extinction.

Mankinds reunited planets now control a vital crossroads after forty years of fighting, one that secures their uneasy union. The doomsday weapon that can end the Slug war, and the mighty fleet that will carry it to the Slug homeworld, also lie within humanitys grasp - but all is far from won.Since the Slug Blitz orphaned Jason Wander, he has risen from infantry recruit to commander of Earths garrisons on the emerging allied planets. But four decades of service have cost Jason not just his friends and family, but his innocence. Then an enemy counterstroke threatens to reverse the war and destroy mankind, Jason must finally confront not only his lifelong alien enemy but the reality of what he has become after a lifetime of conflict.

In the years since the last Slug War, Jasons command style hasnt made him any friends in the Army. Now, in an effort to keep him out of trouble, the Army has sent Jason to the vast, Earth-orbiting resort called New Moon. At the core of this enormous space station is a starship, a relic from the last war. When a test run of the ship goes wrong, Jason, along with a handful of others, will be torn from orbit and thrust into space. Now, stranded on an alien planet, Jason realizes that not only are his friends are looking to him for rescue, but an entire planet sees him as their only hope.

The battle of Ganymede taught Jason Wander about the devastation of war. After seeing the deaths of his troops as well as his lover, this battle-scarred soldier is ready for peace.At twenty-five, General Jason Wander has fought and won mans only alien conflict. Now, after long years in space, hes coming home ... but to what? Earths desperate nations, impoverished by war damage and military spending, are slashing defence budgets. Theres just one problem with this new worldwide policy: the first alien invasion was merely Plan A.Suddenly, the real assault begins: Earth is attached by a vast armada of city-sized warships. To block their invasion, mankind has only one surviving craft and a single guerrilla strike force: a suicide squad led by Jason Wander.