Resurrection Planet

Ronald Crisp, ex-Marine and now full-time mercenary, leads a small elite team to Sybaris, a wasteland world where hideous murders and even cannibalism have been reported by terrified research scientists and miners. Only a planet of the damned could generate so much misery, mayhem, and Machiavellian conspiracies--as Crisp confronts winds and sand that threaten to shear the flesh from men’s bones and the indigenous wildlife and plants that arise from nowhere and return beneath the surface in a matter of minutes. But it is the human--or once human--nightmarish army feasting on the settlers that will chill the heart of a calculating and self-serving anti-hero like Crisp. Especially when he discovers that he knows the evil only too well...and finally learns why Sybaris is called the “Resurrection Planet.”

Fun quotes from "Resurrection Planet": (thanks to the readers at Shelfari)

• "Never let a crisis go to waste--that's the first thing Rome teaches their leaders." --Ronald Crisp

• "All it takes is a walking corpse to wake you out of your chronic funk." --Carly

• "I cannot explain the return of the dead.  Man is given to die, but once." --Gershom the Prophet

• "I take it that you don't find me particularly appetizing?" --Professor Zuckerman

• "I prefer my own legs.  Titaneurom. Neurosynchronized. They transmit nerve impulses.  I can even wiggle my toes.  The artificial toes.  Help me find my legs." --Dr. Kimbrough

• "I told you that we would get blood on our nice new uniforms." --Spencer

• "We just learned two things.  The danger of mishandling your weapon.  And the ineffectiveness of shooting your enemy with anything but a head shot."  --Ronald Crisp