The Hot Gate (Troy Rising)

New York Times best seller in hardcover. Armed forces veteran and seven-time New York Times best-selling author John Ringo delivers the third entry in his blockbuster Troy Rising SF series. Humanity fights back against a devastating Trojan-horse-like alien invasion of Earth and takes the fight to the stars by creating a vast battlestation as large as a planet.

The third entry in the best-selling Troy Rising saga and follow-up to blockbuster Citadel from multiple New York Times and USA Today bestseller and military SF master, John Ringo.

When the orbital gates first materialized in the outer Solar System, all seemed well, but a devastating invasion ensued.   Now humans have battled back from the conquest by a tyrannical alien species to become a force to reckon with in the galaxy. On a crash-building course, humanity has created a near-impregnable battlestation of Deathstar proportions to prove it. But the enemy is remorseless and to survive humans must take the fight to the heart of their empire and prevail–a feat no previous species has ever accomplished. Instead, the bones and burnt hulks of those who have tried litter the star-ways. But these galactic imperialists have never contended with humans, a foe who is their match in sheer ferocity and desire to win. 

About the Troy Rising series:
“[I]nfused with plenty of old-fashioned two-fisted can-do attitude . . .” –Publishers Weekly

“[I]rresistible action-sf . . .[filled with] Ringo’s amazingly fertile imagination.” –Booklist
 
About John Ringo:  
“[O]ne of the best…practitioners. . .of military SF.” –Publishers Weekly

"[F]ast-paced military SF peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse" –Library Journal

“[Ringo’s work] “attains a terrible beauty not unlike that of the Norse Eddas…” –Publishers Weekly 

"If Tom Clancy were writing SF, it would read much like John Ringo.” –Philadelphia Weekly Press
 

John Ringo is the New York Times best-selling author of the Black Tide Rising series, the Posleen War series, the Through the Looking Glass series, and more, including the Troy Rising series, of which Live Free or Die is the first installment. A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, Ringo brings firsthand knowledge of military operations to his fiction.