13th LRF tactical operator
U.S. ARMY VETERAN • AUTHOR

STORIES FORGED
IN REAL SERVICE

Military sci-fi written by someone who actually wore the uniform.

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R. PENDLAND

I served in the U.S. Army during the Cold War — basic training at Fort Dix, then Korea at Camp Hovey. Later I commanded in the Kansas National Guard artillery. I've stood in TOCs, maintained ancient processors, and understood what real readiness actually costs.

Now I write the military science fiction I wish I'd had on deployment: stories with authentic tactics, believable tech, moral weight, and the quiet truth that leadership in war is rarely clean.

U.S. ARMY VETERAN
KOREA • FULDA GAP AWARE
R. Pendland - Korea 1985
CAMP HOVEY, KOREA — 1985
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THE SERIES

13TH LRF

STRIKE TEAM

A hardened strike team from the 13th LRF. Advanced tactics, real firepower, and no-bullshit missions. Leadership forged in blood and experience.

12-PART SERIAL • IN PROGRESS
VORATH

THE VORATH CYCLE

Larger scale. Ancient threats. Modern soldiers dropped into conflicts that span systems. Brotherhood, betrayal, and the cost of victory.

EXPANDING UNIVERSE
NEW HORIZON

NEW HORIZON

Exploration, first contact, and the terrifying realization that humanity's greatest threat might be its own history repeating among the stars.

IN DEVELOPMENT

SAMPLE FROM 13TH LRF

"Combat was clean. Measurable. In a firefight you run the numbers. Leading former teammates… nothing added up. That was the sum of leadership."

BOOKS & DROPS

The 13th LRF saga unfolds across 12 standalone installments — one continuing story, no required reading order. Jump in anywhere.

SERIAL PROGRESS 3 OF 12 INSTALLMENTS REVEALED
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13th LRF: Operation Briar Harvest
NO. 01
OPERATION BRIAR HARVEST
NOVELLA • 07‑2026

Staff Sergeant Reed just made rank, and his own team isn't sure he's earned it. MilCom hands him a sterilization order: six operators, no backup, and a warlord named Vale who already knows they're coming. He walks out with a target on Vale's back and the first thread of something MilCom never wanted him to find.

13th LRF: Controlled Burn — cover coming soon
NO. 02
CONTROLLED BURN
NOVEL • 07‑2026

Vale should have died on Briar Ridge. Instead he's back, and MilCom has handed Reed's team something worse than another mission: an asset called EMBER. Fast. Precise. Built to follow orders without hesitation, and never once asking a question it should be asking.

13th LRF: Dead Reckoning — cover coming soon
NO. 03
DEAD RECKONING
NOVEL • 09‑2026

Six weeks after the validation site, the 13th is still standing, and that's the problem. MilCom doesn't know what to do with a team that saw everything and survived. So they watch. They restrict. They wait. Reed still believes in the military. He's losing faith in the people running it, and EMBER hasn't forgotten him.

INSTALLMENTS 04–12

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