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The Author

I’m the second most famous person to ever come out of Niles, Ohio. This isn’t necessarily a big deal. After all, the first most famous person (William McKinley) is best known for being assassinated, and nobody knows who the third most famous is — and outside of my immediate family and their closest friends, nobody in Niles knows who I am, either. Following some vagabondish early years that saw me resident in Kansas, Texas, and New Jersey, I finished my growing up in Omaha, Nebraska, from where I ran away to the Marine Corps soon after I turned 18. While a Marine I served in the peace time infantry, a tour as a military policeman, and fought a war in Vietnam. Afterwhich I moved to Philadelphia where I studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, followed by a too-short career as a award-winning sculptor. Along the way I got married and subsequently divorced. I began writing in 1983. In 2004, I finally had enough of the dreary winters of Philadelphia and moved to the sunshine and warmth of South Florida.

Okay, if you’ve read the sections on my books, you may have noticed a several year gap between the publication of my eighth book, The Squad, and my ninth, STARFIST: First To Fight. That’s not because I voluntarily took a lengthy sabatical. I had sold all of my Vietnam War novels directly to to the publisher without benefit of an agent. While I was doing that, the rules of the publishing industry changed to the point where it became almost impossible for an unagented author to get the attention of editors — and agents generally don’t try very hard for authors from whom they haven’t made any money. Well, my earlier novels hadn’t sold all that well, either, so that likely had a negative impact. Anyway, even though I continued to write new novels during that gap, I simply didn’t manage to get anything published. Some of them are described under the “Unpublished Novels” link on the first page (Onslaught was another). Sooner or later, I still hope to get them published somewhere. Hey, there’s some good stuff there, even if I do say so myself.

The Books

Fiction – Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction – General, Science Fiction – Series, Fiction, Science Fiction, American, Life on other planets, Military, Marines, General, Science Fiction – Military

Hard to put down . . . Any book written by Cragg and Sherman is bound to be addictive, and this is the first in what promises to be a great adventure series.

First to Fight is rousing, rugged, and just plain fun. Ralph Peters, New York Times bestselling author of Red Army Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol . . .Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day’s water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy-five light-years from home. The only thing between his Marines and safety was eighty-five miles of uncharted, waterless terrain and two thousand bloodthirsty savages with state-of-the-art weapons in their hands and murder on their minds. But the enemy didn’t reckon on the warrior cunning of Marines Marine Charlie Bass and the courage of the few good men who would follow him anywhere–even to death. . .

The books in suggested reading order:
First to Fight
School of Fire
Steel Gauntlet
Blood Contact
Technokill
Hangfire
Kingdom’s Swords
Kingdom’s Fury
Lazarus Rising
A World of Hurt
Flashfire
Firestorm
Wings of Hell
Double Jeopardy