# War Dogs

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- Book: [War Dogs](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-bear/war-dogs) ([War Dogs.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-bear/war-dogs.md))
- Authors: [Greg Bear](https://www.bookquiver.com/greg-bear)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7510-101-2
- Published: 2014-10-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The Gurus came in peace, bearing gifts. They were a highly advanced, interstellar species who brought amazingly useful and sophisticated technology to the human race. There was, of course, a catch. The Gurus warned of a far more malevolent life form, beings who have hounded the Gurus from sun to sun, planet to planet, across the cosmos. Pundits have taken to calling them the Antagonists - or Antags - and they have already established a beachhead on Mars. In exchange for all they've done for us, the Gurus would now like our help. Enter Master Sergeant Michael Venn, a veteran Skyrine (a Marine who is specially trained for off-world combat) who is dropped onto the Red Planet with his band of brothers on a mission to take down as many Antags as possible. But from the moment they're dropped through the thin Martian atmosphere, their mission goes horribly, terribly wrong. From a group of female special ops Skyrines with secret orders, to mysterious humans who've settled on Mars, to the overwhelming and highly-reinforced Antags themselves, Venn and his brothers will face impossible odds just to survive - let alone make it home alive.