Rick Partlow

After years of wandering through the galactic wilderness, Cameron Alvarez is home. But home isn’t there anymore. While the Orion mission was gone, an alien virus brought the Commonwealth to its knees and killed billions. All that’s left is a provisional government on an isolated colony, and...

Cole Ransom, Captain of the ICA cruiser Mistral, is a man with a checkered past and a crew of misfits held together by loyalty and stolen parts. He's made a career bending the rules.

Four complete books. Explosive, military sci-fi action completes the entire second arc of the best-selling Drop Trooper Series....

Go to war or go to jail. For small-time street hustler Cam Alvarez, the choice is simple.... He has no family, no friends, no place in the world...nothing to lose....

Kyle Washaki "Wash" Williams thought his life couldn’t get any more complicated. Then the aliens showed up … After his mom died from cancer, Wash gave up his girlfriend and his dream of being a career Army officer to stay home and take care of his father, a former Special Forces soldier...

Jason McKay and Shannon Stark, two young Republic Space Fleet Intelligence officers, are given the leadership of a new special ops unit. The mission? Guard the spoiled daughter of an important senator. Neither thought the mission would be anything more than babysitting....

Alien tech discovered. The race to claim it could spark a new kind of War. When a derelict alien starship appears in the solar system and crash-lands on Mars, it ignites a desperate race to be the first to reach the Red Planet to claim the mysterious technological treasures of the Visitor. Space...

The world needed a hero. Instead, they got Jack. Dr. Erik Manheim needed a warrior. A Navy SEAL. Someone who could help him confront the threat he uncovered in ancient ruins—evidence that a rogue planet brings devastation every time it passes Earth. Instead, he got Jack Schafer, a hungover...

Get the Star Bounty bundle, featuring all three books in the hit series from Rick Partlow (Drop Trooper). Full of conspiracies, black-market trade, and explosive military space-opera action....

Dragon Award Finalist Rick Partlow's Earth at War series is military sci-fi at its finest. Get Books 1-3 in this bundle, packed with nonstop action and seasoned with grade-A military humor. Jump into the story today....

We have met the enemy… and they are us. Peace between the kingdoms of Dravos is beginning to fracture. Border raids are escalating, allies are turning on one another, and Jack Schafer is about to discover an enemy that doesn't invade from outside, but works through the minds of those he trusts...

Go to war or go to jail. For small-time street hustler Cam Alvarez, the choice is simple. He has no family, no friends, no place in the world...nothing to lose. When his latest con results in the death of a cartel hitman, Cam opts to join the Marines and leave Earth to fight a vicious alien...

We’ve won a battle...but we’re losing the war. Travis Miller, his image reformed from the moron who screwed up our first contact with aliens to one of the heroes of the Battle for Eden, is given a new assignment: Retake the occupied colony of Brigantia. Losing it would be a glancing blow to...

First contact gone wrong.... It was every starship captain’s nightmare, and for Travis Miller, it was his own personal hell. He’d done everything by the book, but when the Tahni had attacked him and his crew, there was no choice but to return fire and destroy the first alien vessel humans...

Abducted by aliens. Frozen for decades. Charlie Travers figures his life can’t get much worse. He lives over a pizza restaurant, he’s lost his girlfriend, and has no prospects for a career. Then, he’s abducted by an alien robot and taken across the galaxy. When he wakes up, he finds...

New systems…new allies…new enemies. Cam Alvarez and the crew of the Orion spent five years in hibernation, putting old enemies behind them, searching for the pathway home. When they find another network of wormhole jumpgates created by the Predecessors, Cam is sure they’re on the right...

Brent Parthet just wanted to be left alone. A deadly supercommando in the Southwind War, Brent had retired a hero to a wildlife preserve as far from civilization as possible to enjoy the simple life with his wife and young son.

The Bugs are coming... They destroyed the civilization of the ancient alien Elders thousands of years ago, and now they’re following Andy Clanton and the crew of the James Bowie back from the edge of the galaxy and into Alliance space, bent on wiping out all intelligent life in the galaxy...

Jack Schafer saved Earth by accident. Saving his newly adopted home, Dravos, won't be any easier. Dravos has fallen into a new star system, sunlight blazing down on a civilization that's never known day or night. Its people are terrified. Its nobles are plotting. Its king wants answers Jack...

Cam Alvarez is lost in the depths of the galaxy…and the only way home is through a horde of alien monsters. Cam and the others in the task force have followed Zan Thint through the Predecessor Gateway to another spiral arm of the galaxy. There, they are stranded…unless they can find another...