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Dr. Bruce Thompson leads a deep space mission into Messier-104 to defend the planet against ruthless aliens bent on destroying Earth. The action is nonstop, revealing leapfrog technology on the horizon.

Dr. Bruce Thompson, an extraordinary scientist and engineer, returns home to a hero's welcome after almost four decades in deep space. Soon after, he learns the hostile alien culture he battled in Messier-104 have followed him through the time fold. The first intergalactic war is about to begin.

Imagine a middle-age, extraordinary engineer working for a private space company. After years of preparation, he's selected as the sole passenger for a new spacecraft that will study the heavens like none other. Then after years of travel, in another galaxy no less, communication with home is no longer possible. As time passes, the Company gives up declaring their investment is lost, much less that his wife and son must move on alone.

A Russian ICBM site is attacked just north of the Ukraine boarder. The nuclear warheads are missing! A Special Operations and Intelligence Community Task Force is rapidly put together to respond, but where it should deploy is unclear. A fire ravages a cosmonaut training facility in which five spacesuits disappear. And the Task Force finds a cache of detailed schematics of highly complex rocketry systems. The Task Force reaches out to Dr. Amy Sue Harrington of the Missiles and Space Intelligence Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

A general in the United States Army by the name of William Thornson once said, "There are only two kinds of people that understand Marines: Marines and the enemy. Everyone else has a second-hand opinion." I've come to believe the general was wrong. I say that because no enemy in his right mind would remain the enemy of a Marine...if...he truly understood the Marines. Of course, the universe is filled with crazy people and in my occupation I got to meet more than my fair share of them.