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Angles of Attack (Frontlines, 3) Paperback – April 21, 2015

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The alien forces known as the Lankies are gathering on the solar system’s edge, consolidating their conquest of Mars and setting their sights on Earth. The far-off colony of New Svalbard, cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Lanky blockade, teeters on the verge of starvation and collapse. The forces of the two Earth alliances have won minor skirmishes but are in danger of losing the war. For battle-weary staff sergeant Andrew Grayson and the ragged forces of the North American Commonwealth, the fight for survival is entering a catastrophic new phase.

Forging an uneasy alliance with their Sino-Russian enemies, the NAC launches a hybrid task force on a long shot: a stealth mission to breach the Lanky blockade and reestablish supply lines with Earth. Plunging into combat against a merciless alien species that outguns, outmaneuvers, and outfights them at every turn, Andrew and his fellow troopers could end up cornered on their home turf, with no way out and no hope for reinforcement. And this time, the struggle for humanity’s future can only end in either victory or annihilation.

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“Frontlines is earnest, optimistic, and fun, even as it deals with subject matter that’s intrinsically grim. It’s a story that strikes the perfect balance between escapism and serious reflection, and it’s the perfect military sci-fi series to escape into for a week or two.” ―The Verge

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Marko Kloos was born and raised in Germany, in and around the city of Münster. In the past, he was a soldier, bookseller, freight dockworker, and corporate IT administrator before he decided that he wasn’t cut out for anything other than making up stuff for a living. He writes primarily science fiction and fantasy, his favorite genres since his youth, when he spent most of his allowance on German sci-fi pulp serials. He resides in New Hampshire with his wife, two children, and a roving pack of vicious dachshunds.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1477828311
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ 47North (April 21, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781477828311
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1477828311
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
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Marko Kloos was born in Germany and raised in and around the city of Münster.

Marko writes primarily science fiction and fantasy, his first genre love ever since his youth when he spent his allowance on pulp serials. He's the author of the bestselling Frontlines and Palladium Wars series of military science fiction.

Marko lives in New Hampshire with his wife, two children, and their roving pack of dachshunds.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, great plot, clean and exciting science fiction
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2024
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This author is amazing, I am completely engrossed in this series. I'm currently on book 6 and I already feel sad knowing that it will eventually come to an end. The worldbuilding and science fiction elements are top-notch, the best I've read all year. The plot and story are superb, without any unnecessary sexual content or distractions. It's simply fabulous.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book Just wished it moved the story further along
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At the onset of Angles of Attack the third book in Marko Kloos's Frontline series, things are not looking good for humanity. For five years, humanity has been fighting a losing battle of extermination against a seemingly invincible enemy who now stands on the doorstep of Earth about to finish us off. Our oldest and most populous colony on Mars just fell to the Lankies , all major cities and installations have been cleansed off the planet by nerve gas and the enemy has begun terraforming the planet to meet their own biological needs. After this defeat, a refugee fleet of the two main powers on Earth, the North American Coalition (NAC) and Sino-Russian Alliance (SRA) arrive in the New Svalbard system where our main character Staff Sergeant Andrew Grayson and a small contingent of NAC soldiers are currently holed up after a successful mutiny which saw Grayson and group of exiled Homeworld Defense soldiers disobey direct orders to seize the resources of New Svalbard from the colonists for use by the NAC. An alliance of convenience is formed between the NAC and SRA refugee fleets, and although the two sides do not readily trust one another they are willing to integrate their forces towards the greater goal of survival. However, given the recent influx of soldiers and sailors from the refugee fleet and the fact that the world of New Svalbard is essentially a Hoth-lite planet, the refugee fleet finds itself with two sobering options, starving to death in orbit around their new home or run the risk of running the blockade around Earth in an attempt reestablish supply lines with Earth. Fortunately, for our heroes the fleet does possess a state of the art spy vessel with stealth capabilities, the Indianapolis, that they can use to hopefully break the enemy’s blockade of our solar system. In the process of doing so they can then discover if Earth is still intact, reestablish contact and then return back to New Svalbard before the colony and fleet around the planet starve to death. Sounds simple right? Of course along the way in the novel, things are not always what they seem to be and a constant theme in the book is the inability of humanity and those in power to look beyond self-interest and to actually serve the greater good, even in the face of utter annihilation.

All in all, Angles of Attack is a nice addition to the Frontline series and although I found this latest addition to be the weakest of the three that have been released thus far, I still found it to be a delightfully fun and extremely enjoyable read. Kloos has an amazing ability to pen taut, frenetic and realistic action sequences that place his readers right in the midst of the action. Whether it is a highly kinetic firefight or the equally tense action of sneaking through an enemy blockade, Kloos' stories ooze authenticity in a way that many other military space opera novels don't. Kloos simply does a great job detailing the culture of the militaries he writes about in addition to enumerating the preferred tactics, weapon systems and platforms of said military cultures. When one picks up Angles of Attack or any other novel in the frontline series , one is presented with a wonderfully realized and fully believable vision of the military in the 22nd Century.

In Angles of Attack, the characters in the are well written, even if they do not stray too far from established sci-fi military clichés. The characterization for most of the characters is not particularly deep, although Kloos through the thoughts/conversations of the main character the author does attempt to deal with the idea of how the individual or even the systems created by individuals (i.e governments, bureaucracies etc) would react to the apocalypse and the the prospect of losing all that one holds dear. Would a sense of depression or acceptance kick in , or would the animal nature of humanity strike yet again as we lash out of the corner to fight back once again against all odds? Do we as a species come together in times of crisis or use this as a justification to grow more selfish and ensure our own survival? What if any are the ramifications of such decisions? Heady questions to be sure, and the author just briefly touches on them while showing the potential consequences such decisions can have on our ultimate survival.

Staff Sergeant Grayson, though weary and battle hardened is given his own level of depth in the novel hidden in his real motivations why he risks leaving the relative safety of New Svalgrad to accompany the crew of the Indianapolis on their journey back to Earth. That was a well done touch. Kloos also does a great job portraying the military bureaucracies’ s on both the SRA and NAC sides as soulless machines, faceless and essentially unaccountable machines that grind up and leech all sense of usefulness of those within their ranks, but to what purpose? To the end of the novel, we see a government and a military that has lost its core reason for being, and it will be interesting to see how this theme is carried on forward in the series.

As you can tell, I found much to enjoy about this book. That being said, my main criticism with the book stems from what I felt was the lack of movement in the main plot of the series. Towards, the end of the novel, humanity is essentially in the same place as they were at the end of the second novel, Lines of Departure, and our characters though on a different planet with a different difficult decision to make are no closer to saving humanity. Granted this may have been my own fault as I thought that this was the last book in the series, and was not aware of another upcoming novel in the series, so imagine my surprise/frustration that at the end of the book, we know little more about the Lankies than we did at the end of book two and the story has moved no closer towards either the salvation or extinction of the human race.

In short, although a lot happened in the novel, it almost felt at the end like filler, enjoyable, well written filler, but filler nonetheless. Although interesting questions are posed about the Lankies in this novel, no answers are given and three books in we still don’t know much about the Lankies, their motivations, their society, or even how their ships are made. While this does serve the story as it makes the enemy mysterious, extremely powerful and frightening, at some point the ant, being humanity, is going to have to learn how to stop the boot of the Lankies from stomping us out of existence. In fairness to the author however, while he does portray the enemy as semi-invincible, he has provided enough chinks in their armor that one can plausibly see how humanity will prevail. My only hope is that the next novel moves us closer to figuring out how this will be accomplished.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I am obsessed!!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2024
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What an exciting series and I have 5 more to go. The storyline seems to predict our future in such detail. Scary but compelling. So many stories of individuals that can make you smile or cry. Good reading for anyone. I am going to try to wean my grandsons off of virtual video battle and get them to read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Generally this is a good book continuing the Frontlines story but I do indeed ...
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2015
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Generally this is a good book continuing the Frontlines story but I do indeed have some gripes with some aspects of the story. The book starts off with a nice piece of action where the Commonwealth and Sino-Russian alliance are actually kicking some Lankie behinds. However, then there is not really any follow up. They just waltz in, shot up some Lankies and then that course of action is more or less abandoned. During said attack there are some strange behavior on the Lankies side but that also leads nowhere except for some vague after-action discussions.

The rest of the book is devoted to the quest to bring the task force back home to Earth which is now under “blockade” by the Lankies who, for some strange reason, have taken Mars but then simply stopped. That is one huge part of the story that I have a real difficulty with. Why do the Lankies invade everything in sight (almost) but not Earth? We know they could do so easily so it is utterly illogical.

There are quite a bit of action going on in this book and it is quite well done. These parts of the book are reasonably realistic and the laws of physics are still respected even though this is science fiction. What still frustrates me though is that, after five years of combating the Lankies, the humans have still not come up with some heavy penetrator that can punch a hole in a Lanky ship. This annoys me enormously. Especially since we do get a second evidence that the Lankies can be hurt that way in this book and it would actually not be requiring quantum leaps in technology to achieve.

The book ends somewhat in a void as far as I am concerned. The task force do achieve their objectives although at high costs but Earth is not what it used to be and, of course, the Lankies are still at the doorstep. The outlook is not exactly a happy one but the book does not really hint at any path forward. Quite to the contrary. Some of the decisions by the characters to stay behind, for what looks like entirely nostalgic reasons, did not sit that well with me.

It is a shame really because the author does indeed write quite well. If there would have been less of the illogical elements in the story this would probably have been a great book. Now it is “just” good.
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D. Kimball
5.0 out of 5 stars Series continues to be awesome!
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
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I’ve been a sci fi fan most of my life, and have read a wide variety of stories by well known authors. So when I say I’m very impressed by Marko’s work, it’s no light praise. The Frontline series has been great, highly recommend and I’m looking forward to reading the 4th book next!
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5.0 out of 5 stars good addition to the series
Reviewed in Canada on January 26, 2022
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I liked all the books thus far in this series, start with the first book & the series moves quite well, not classic literature but a decent addition to the space opera genre.
I will be reading the next book.
If you like this type of book I recommend it, better than a lot.
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Tonya
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2024
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This series just keeps getting betterer and betterer.
Recommended highly, be ready to devote late night reading, this is a very difficult book to put down.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in Germany on July 31, 2019
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This is the most realistic (warp drives or not) scifi military book I've ever read. My stomach always turned whenever I read sappy Star Trekian books with competent leaders and politicians.

The world doesn't work like that and I didn't need to suspend my disbelief at the political chaos in this book. There's no need for Machiavellian plots if sheer incompetence can be attributed to bad decisions.

Occam's razor to its finest. Well done.
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Miguel Angel Alonso Pulido
5.0 out of 5 stars De lo mejor en CF militar que vas a encontrar
Reviewed in Spain on July 5, 2019
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Mira que es difícil mantener la calidad a lo largo de tres libros y que la historia siga atrayendo y no haya altibajos, pero Marko Kloos lo consigue con creces en esta tercera parte. No voy a añadir mucho más a lo que ya dije de los otros libros, solo que aquí demuestra que además de narrar batallas terrestres muy bien, el autor también es capaz de trasladar esa tensión a las batallas en el espacio y todo lo que se desarrolla fuera de la atmósfera, que en este libro es mucho más que en los anteriores. Muy muy recomendable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gets better with time
Reviewed in Australia on October 3, 2022
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Re-reading the series and it improves on a second look. A couple of strengths are it’s plausible future military world. Given the factual premises of the Frontlines universe, I think a Western military would look like this.

I also like the unromantic vibe of the series. It’s gritty but never deteriorates into pointless gore.

It’s also tightly written. The first person sounds like a real combat veteran to me.
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