Binding: Paperback
Description: The Year is 2040. The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves. Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to split humanity into opposing factions and plunge the Earth into chaos and war. The USMC - - a branch of a military considered until just recently to be obsolete - - has dispatched the Marine Mars Expeditionary Force a thirty - man weapons platoon to the Red Planet to protect American civilians and interest with lethal force if necessary. Because great powers are willing to devastate a world in order to keep an ancient secret buried. Because something that was hidden in the Martian dust for half a million years has just been unearthed something that calls into question every belief that forms the delicate foundation of civilization Something inexplicably human.
Title: Semper Mars
Author(s): Douglas Ian
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780380788286
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/1998
Series: Heritage Trilogy
Category: Science Fiction