Invasion: Book One of the Secret World Chronicle

Mercedes Lackey · Steve Libby · Cody Martin · Dennis Lee

Mar 2011 · The Secret World Chronicles Book 1 · Baen Publishing Enterprises

About this ebook

The world had become used to the metahumans-people sometimes perfectly ordinary,but sometimes quite extraordinary in appearance-who mostly worked with their governments as high-powered peace officers, fighting crime, and sometimes fighting rogue metahumans who had become super-criminals. Then that comfortable world ended in just one terrifying day.

Suddenly, all world governments were simultaneously attacked by soldiers in giant mecha robotic suits with the swastika symbol of the Third Reich on their metal arms. If these were Nazis, where had they been hiding since the end of World War II? And where had they gotten armor and weapons far in advance of anything on the planet? Weapons against which even the metahuman heroes seemed to be helpless...

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Ratings and reviews

Great book. This whole series is like the boys but in a book. Those plot twists were definitely what keeps things interesting. The lore, the setting, Mercedes descriptions always seems to keep you right in the action

A blast of total, utterly wonderous story telling joy. BRILLIANT read! With tastes of adventure and magic, reality and science, a hint of steampunk, with the flavour of an up to date Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Unlike most collaborative efforts, this narrative hangs together effortlessly, riding story peak after peak- I am breathlessly looking forwards to reading the rest of the series! =•D

Very good not disjointed like some collaborations can be.

About the author

John Ringo had visited 23 countries and attended 14 schools by the time he graduated high school. This left him with a wonderful appreciation of the oneness of humanity and a permanent aversion to foreign food. He chose to study marine biology and really liked it. Unfortunately the pay was for beans. So he turned to quality control database management, where the pay was much better. His highest hopes were to someday upgrade to SQL Server, at which point, he thought, his life would be complete. But then Fate took a hanJohn has become a professional science fiction writer, and is in the early stages of becoming fabulously wealthy, which his publisher has assured him is the common lot of science fiction writers who write for Baen Books. In addition to his own enthusiastically received and New York Times best-selling military SF series†A Hymn Before Battle, Gust Front, When the Devil Dances, and Hell's Faire†he is collaborating with fellow New York Times best-selling author David Weber on a new SF adventure series: March Upcountry, March to the Sea, March to the Stars and We Few, with more to come.

With his bachelor years spent in the airborne, cave diving, rock-climbing, rappelling, hunting, spear-fishing, and sailing, the author is now happy to let other people risk their necks. He prefers to write science fiction (both alone and in collaboration with David Weber and others) raise Arabian horses, dandle his kids and watch the grass grow. Someday he may even cut it. But not today. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe he'll just let the horses eat it.