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Darklanding (12 book series) Kindle Edition
Darklanding (12 book series)
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by Craig Martelle (Author) , Scott Moon (Author)
From Book 1: A frontier world. One Sheriff. And all the action one Spaceport can't hold. Darklanding is the wild, wild west of known space. Sheriff Thaddeus Fry will never completely leave the battlefields of Centauri Prime. His new assignment, the Sheriff's office of Darklanding, could be a do-nothing job, or it could get him killed.

The first thing he learns is that his predecessor's headquarters were bombed, creating the vacancy that led to his appointment. The Company Man, is not who he expected, to say the least. His new accommodations are right in the center of Darklanding's misfits. He finds one native of Ungwilook willing to talk to him and tries to make him a deputy.

What really matters on Darklanding, are the mines. Faced with a dangerous collapse that could kill hundreds of workers, he leaps into action and gets the story of Darklanding started. Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this new series. Join us today and every 18 days, you’ll get a new episode of Darklanding.
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Assignment Darklanding Book 01
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Assignment Darklanding Book 01
by Craig Martelle (Author) , Scott Moon (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 382 4.1 on Goodreads 274 ratings
A frontier world. One Sheriff. And all the action one Spaceport can't hold. Darklanding is the wild, wild west of known space. Sheriff Thaddeus Fry will never completely leave the battlefields of Centauri Prime. His new assignment, the Sheriff's office of Darklanding, could be a do-nothing job, or it could get him killed.

The first thing he learns is that his predecessor's headquarters were bombed, creating the vacancy that led to his appointment. The Company Man, is not who he expected, to say the least. His new accommodations are right in the center of Darklanding's misfits. He finds one native of Ungwilook willing to talk to him and tries to make him a deputy.

What really matters on Darklanding, are the mines. Faced with a dangerous collapse that could kill hundreds of workers, he leaps into action and gets the story of Darklanding started. Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this new series. Join us today and every 18 days, you’ll get a new episode of Darklanding.

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Ike Shot the Sheriff: Assignment Darklanding Book 02
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Ike Shot the Sheriff: Assignment Darklanding Book 02
by Scott Moon (Author) , Craig Martelle (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 142 4.3 on Goodreads 134 ratings
A frontier world. One Sheriff. And all the action one Spaceport can't hold. The more Thaddeus Fry learns about Darklanding, the more he realizes he doesn’t know. Every day is a fight. The Company Man is little help. The moon-eyed madam. The purveyor of the Mother Lode. A parade of miners and workers. And Thad’s Unglok deputy.

There’s unrest among the miners. Desperation sets in for the Company Man. One wrong decision will destroy her career. The sheriff doesn’t care about any of that. There are strangers in town. One or all of them may be enemies. And how does a mysterious runaway fit into the picture?

Assisted by his friends and a strange pig-dog-thing that won’t stop following him, Thaddeus Fry must bring law and order to a frontier world completely unconcerned with justice or fairness. Gunfights solved problems. Or they didn’t. This time his adversary is stacking the deck against him to make sure Darklanding fails completely. Thaddeus fought a war in a harsher place against a more determined foe, but Darklanding is giving Centauri Prime a run for its money.

Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this space opera / western and all the characters that make the story great. Pick your favorite and join us as we follow them through Darklanding Episode Two, Ike Shot the Sheriff.

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Outlaws: Assignment Darklanding Book 03
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Outlaws: Assignment Darklanding Book 03
by Scott Moon (Author) , Craig Martelle (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 99 4.4 on Goodreads 89 ratings
How does a train robber take down an automated supersonic bullet train? A frontier world. One Sheriff. And all the action one Spaceport can't hold. Unrefined ore is moved by a state of the art mono-rail from the mines to the spaceport. It’s never gone off the tracks. Until now.

What kind of crew is crazy enough to mess with SagCon’s investments? Who has the training and the tech to pull off this kind of heist? Unprocessed ore is difficult to remove from the planet, but maybe there’s another reason for a crack unit to hit the train. Thad is on his own to figure out the crime and bring the perps to justice, even after a SagCon Special Investigator shows up. The SI has his own agenda, and it has nothing to do with the train robbery.

Where will the tendrils lead? Solving the crime may not bring peace and order back to Darklanding…

Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this space opera / western and all the characters that make the story great. Join us on the latest journey through Darklanding.

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Runaway: Assignment Darklanding Book 04
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Runaway: Assignment Darklanding Book 04
by Scott Moon (Author) , Craig Martelle (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 82 4.5 on Goodreads 79 ratings
The runaway’s story comes to the fore, and it’s far more than anyone suspected. A frontier world. One Sheriff. And all the action one Spaceport can't hold. SagCon’s Special Investigator gets comfortable plying the Mother Lode, but he didn’t come alone. Sparks fly when a second SI shows up, one from the sheriff’s sordid past.

Does the runaway’s grandfather want to protect her, or prune her from the family tree? Why is the second SI in town?
How far would you go for your family? Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this space opera / western and all the characters that make the story great. Join us on the latest journey through Darklanding.

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An Unglok Murder: Assignment Darklanding Book 05
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An Unglok Murder: Assignment Darklanding Book 05
by Scott Moon (Author) , Craig Martelle (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 4.6 on Goodreads 64 ratings
Ungloks don’t kill their own, or do they? Sheriff Fry and Deputy Mast Jotham are forced into the underbelly of Darklanding, into a world they didn’t know existed. Surprises are nonstop when they find out who else knows. A frontier world. One Sheriff. And all the action one spaceport can't hold.
The Shadow Economy exists everywhere there are humans. Along with prosperity comes power or the power first, then prosperity. Some Ungloks have embraced the ShadEcon, even though they aren’t good at operating within its unwritten laws. Darkness threatens the fragile peace between Ungwilook’s natives and the Company workers. The sheriff is determined to get to the bottom of it despite the risk.
Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this space opera / western and all the characters that make the story great. Join us on the latest journey through Darklanding.

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SAGCON: Assignment Darklanding Book 06
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SAGCON: Assignment Darklanding Book 06
by Craig Martelle (Author) , Scott Moon (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 4.6 on Goodreads 69 ratings

Centauri Prime was an epic failure, especially for a battle they supposedly won. 

Melborn, the human-colonized planet of the inner system wanted a combat unit that could win and win quickly. Terror Command was born, TerroCom and they needed a place to train. A frontier world. One Sheriff. And all the action one spaceport can't hold.


When the Company Man’s father, the Sagittarian Conglomerate Chairman of the Board gets involved, nothing goes as planned for anyone other than him.


Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this space opera / western and all the characters that make the story great. Join us on the latest journey through Darklanding.


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Race to the Finish: Assignment Darklanding Book 07
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Race to the Finish: Assignment Darklanding Book 07
by Scott Moon (Author) , Craig Martelle (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 89 4.6 on Goodreads 60 ratings

Out there among the dark and vast nothing, men are needin' entertainment something fierce…

When the inner system comes to the frontier with their low-altitude sport racing, Ungwilook is transformed into a race mecca, if only for a little while, with all the flamboyance, intrigue, infighting, and crime that such a high-value sport brings with it. A frontier world. One Sheriff. The Company and all the action one spaceport can’t handle.


The professional champion may be a rich pretty boy, but nothing can protect him when he crosses Sheriff Thaddeus Fry, not the Company Man, not even Deputy Mast Jotham. Let the war drums sound as the sheriff takes his grievance to the racetrack’s skies and beyond.


Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this space opera / western and all the characters that make the story great. Join us on the latest journey through Darklanding.


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Boom Town: Assignment Darklanding Book 08
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Boom Town: Assignment Darklanding Book 08
by Scott Moon (Author) , Craig Martelle (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 69 4.3 on Goodreads 48 ratings

The rush began with the first rumor. Exotics free for the taking! No hard work needed, just pick them up off the ground! And the miners flooded in. Then the shady businesses to supply the miners. Then the shady businesses to service the miners.

A frontier world. One sheriff. The Company and all the action one spaceport can’t handle.

How will Darklanding’s identity change when it becomes a Boom Town? Greed does strange things to people. It goes hand in hand with power. Will anyone succumb to the siren’s call of endless credits?

Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this space opera / western and all the characters that make the story great. Join us on the latest journey through Darklanding.


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A Warrior's Home: Assignment Darklanding Book 09
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A Warrior's Home: Assignment Darklanding Book 09
by Craig Martelle (Author) , Scott Moon (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 86 4.6 on Goodreads 44 ratings

Thaddeus Fry became a sheriff, but he never stopped being a soldier. TerroCom needs him and he can’t say no.

A frontier world. One sheriff. The Company and all the action one spaceport can’t handle.

A warrior is never far from battle, even if the war is long over. Thad is torn between his new home on Darklanding and the familiarity of combat. His quirky friends or his fellow warriors. Whose call will be the strongest? Maximus deploys with the sheriff as they go off world to find out.

Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this space opera / western and all the characters that make the story great. Join us on the latest journey through Darklanding.


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Hunter: Assignment Darklanding Book 10
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Hunter: Assignment Darklanding Book 10
by Scott Moon (Author) , Craig Martelle (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 79 4.4 on Goodreads 45 ratings
When a hunter from the pig-dog’s home planet arrives all hell break’s loose. Who are Maximus’ true friends and how far will they go to protect him?

A frontier world. One sheriff. The Company, and all the action one spaceport can’t handle.

The sheriff’s faithful companion carries a secret. The hunter is driven to get it and won’t rest until he stands over Maximus’ dead body. The sheriff and his alien deputy fight to stay one step ahead of the Hunter from Glakridoz.

Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this space opera / western and all the characters that make the story great. Join us on the latest journey through Darklanding.

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Diver Down: Assignment Darklanding Book 11
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Diver Down: Assignment Darklanding Book 11
by Scott Moon (Author) , Craig Martelle (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 4.5 on Goodreads 44 ratings
Darklanding is a bust, or is it? Everyone is working a different scheme to save it. The Company Man to the Madam to the Mine Foreman. The sheriff, his deputy, and Maximus are hanging on for a wild ride trying to hold it together until the next ship comes in. A frontier world. One sheriff. The Company, and all the action one spaceport can’t handle.

Shaunte gets a surprise visit. Dixie takes a trip. And Foreman Dickles takes matters into his own hands, and that brings out the goons. No job too small. No debt too great.

Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this space opera / western and all the characters that make the story great. Join us on the latest journey through Darklanding.

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Empire: Assignment Darklanding Book 12
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Empire: Assignment Darklanding Book 12
by Scott Moon (Author) , Craig Martelle (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 95 4.7 on Goodreads 55 ratings

Will Darklanding continue? In this climactic final episode of Season 1, you’ll find good people going to extraordinary lengths to save their home while improving life for the Ungloks. Can they learn to live together, or is that one step too far?


An ancient alien menace rises from the depths of the planet to terrorize Darklanding. Men and women rally at the Mother Lode.


TerroCom soldiers land in the middle of the swarm with just enough fire power to stay alive. Where is Thad’s deputy and the pig-dog? What secret deal is Shaunte making to save the company? How many charges will Thad’s blaster have left when the dark creatures come for him? The winners will determine the future of Darklanding.


The sheriff is forced to choose which friends to save and which friends to ask for help. Nothing is easy in a frontier town like Darklanding.


Fans of Firefly, Bonanza, and Tombstone will love this space opera / western and all the characters that make the story great. Join us on the latest journey through Darklanding.


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  1. Craig Martelle

    Craig Martelle

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    Craig is a million-selling author of science fiction (post-apocalyptic, military sci-fi, and space opera), thrillers, and non-fiction.

    Craig retired from the Marine Corps after a long career in the military intelligence community, having worked with most of the U.S. Government's three-letter agencies. After a short stint with physical security, Craig went to law school, graduated summa cum laude, and went into business consulting. From intelligence, to the inner workings of company board rooms, to on-the-ground leadership, Craig has seen it firsthand.

    His books are an extension of his experience, putting the trials and tribulations of a fast-paced world into your hands. Whether in Science Fiction, Thrillers, Fantasy, or even his Non-Fiction, you'll find consistent themes of justice and doing right by those who are counting on their leaders. Leadership is a service, not a crown to lord over others.

    No matter where Craig went, he always had a book with him. Thanks to 21st Century technology, He now has thousands of books at his fingertips and with him wherever he goes. How many books would he have read on deployments had he not had to carry a physical book?

    No one is encumbered like that now. Craig loves the works of Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton, JRR Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, and so many more. He has been compared to Andre Norton and that is humbling - she was an incredible author with a huge list of novels to her credit. With every new book, Craig aspires to live up to those that you, the readers, have compared him to.

    Through a bizarre series of events, Craig ended up in Fairbanks, Alaska. He never expected to retire to a place where golf courses are only open for four months out of the year. But that's the way it is. It is off the beaten path. He and his wife get to watch the northern lights from their driveway. Their dog has lots of room to run, just until temperatures reach fifty below zero. They have from three and a half hours of daylight in the winter to twenty-four hours in the summer.

    It’s all part of the give and take of life. If they didn’t have those extremes, then everyone would live in the sub-arctic.

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  2. Scott Moon

    Scott Moon

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    Thanks for checking out my Amazon landing page. Please click FOLLOW to keep up with my prolific launch schedule. I can’t do this without a whole bunch of amazing readers.

    Scott Moon is the co-author of the bestselling Homeworld Lost, The Last Reaper, Terran Strike Marines, and Darklanding series. His solo works include Blue Sun Armada, Invasion Day, the Chronicles of Kin Roland, and more. As a lifelong fan of reading and a chronic daydreamer, he has retired from twenty-six years of public service to make his own schedule, indulge his imagination, and pursue a variety of hobbies. He’s an 80s kid who survived to (relative) maturity and it shows.

    You can join his Facebook Group, The Scott Moon Base, or learn more than you ever wanted to about his writing process at Scott’s Science Fiction Substack.

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