<p><b>Hard-core military science fiction at its very best, John Scalzi's <i>The Last Colony</i> is the third in The Old Man's War series. </b><br><br><b>They must save themselves </b><b>–</b><b> or die trying.</b><br><br>John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanity's colonies – until he and his wife were offered an opportunity these ex-supersoldiers couldn't resist. To come out of retirement and lead a new frontier world.<br><br>However, once on the planet, they discover they've been betrayed. For this colony is a pawn in an interstellar game of war and diplomacy. Humanity's Colonial Union has pitched itself against a new, seemingly unstoppable alien alliance, dedicated to ending all human colonization.<br><br>As this contest rages above, Perry struggles to keep his terrified colonists alive on the surface below – despite dan