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Gust Front


The aliens had arrived
With gifts, warnings, and an offer we
couldn't refuse....

Our choice was simple: we could be cannon fodder, or we could be ... fodder. We could send our forces to fight and die (as only humans can) against a ravening horde that was literally feeding on its interstellar conquests—or remain as we were—virtually weaponless and third in line for brunch.

We chose to fight.

Thanks to alien technology and sheer guts, the Terrans on two worlds fought the Posleen to a standstill. Thank God there was a moment to catch our breath, a moment, however brief, of peace—.

Now, for the survivors of the Barwhon and Diess Expeditionary Forces, it was a chance to get some distance from the blood and misery of battle against the Posleen centaurs. A blessed chance to forget the screams of the dying in purple swamps and massacres under searing alien suns.

For Earth it was an opportunity to flesh out their force of raw recruits with combat-seasoned veterans. Political, military and scientific blundering had left the Terran forces in shambles-and with the Posleen Invasion only months away, these shell-shocked survivors might be the only people capable of saving the Earth from devastation.

If the veterans had time to lick their wounds.

Because the Posleen don't read schedules.

Cover art by Dru Blair
Interior maps by John Ringo


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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, April 2001

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ringo, John, 1963-Gust front / by John Ringo.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-671-31976-0
1. Human-alien encounters—Fiction. 2. Life on other planets—Fiction.
3. Space warfare—Fiction. I. Title

PS3568.I577 F87 2001
813'6—dc21 00-065077

Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-0-671-31976-2
ISBN-10: 0-671-31976-0

Copyright© 2001 by John Ringo

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