Semper Mars (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780380788286)

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.

Author: Ian Douglas
ISBN-10: 0380788284
ISBN-13: 9780380788286
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1998
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 6.86h x 4.24w x 1.06d