Posted by By Karen Traviss
The plot of this e-book happens sooner than the 1st e-book within the sequence and video game within the franchise.
MARCUS FENIX. warfare HERO. dependable SON. TRAITOR.
Ten years after Emergence Day, because the Locust Horde advances on humanity’s final defended area—Ephyra—in a bloody struggle that has noticeable billions die, Marcus Fenix does the unthinkable: he defies orders and abandons his put up in the course of a severe conflict in a bid to rescue his father, guns scientist Adam Fenix. yet Adam is buried within the rubble in the course of a ferocious attack at the Fenix mansion, and Ephyra falls to the enemy. Marcus, grieving for a father all people believes is lifeless, is court-martialed for dereliction of responsibility and sentenced to 40 years within the Coalition of Ordered Government’s brutal greatest defense legal, recognized easily because the Slab.
But Adam is particularly a lot alive, snatched from the destruction via the elite Onyx defend on Chairman Richard Prescott’s orders. He’s now some distance from domestic and in a jail of his own—a COG doomsday bunker at the tropical island of Azura, a spot hidden from the remainder of Sera because the Pendulum Wars. His personal responsible mystery has been uncovered: Adam knew the Locust existed deep lower than the outside of Sera lengthy ahead of Emergence Day, and have been being pushed from their tunnels through a deadly parasite referred to as the Lambent. Now he has to discover how to ruin the Lambent whereas the dwindling COG forces struggle to carry again a transforming into Locust military that’s threatening to overrun the city.
As Adam struggles to discover redemption in his cozy island detention center, Marcus seeks his personal atonement within the squalid, closed global in the Slab’s granite partitions. whereas Dom Santiago and Anya Stroud struggle to get him published, able to make any sacrifice to unfastened him, Marcus progressively reveals unforeseen kinship between Sera’s most deadly criminals—and how to keep it up his own warfare opposed to the Locust.
“Adam, you knew today could come.”
It was once a well-known voice: silky, imperial, polished, and totally human.
“Hello, Myrrah.” Adam Fenix discovered himself contemplating the poor Locust meals back. “You bought my message, then.”
“And how correct you have been. We do desire you. And we will take you. i'm hoping you’re now not making plans something silly. you may have duties, Adam.”
It will be a dwelling dying. The Locust Queen may by no means liberate him, whether he built a countermeasure. yet he didn’t deserve any better.
“I even have my provider pistol.”
“And i will take your son at any time.”
He had the degree of her, then, and he or she had his. “You depart Marcus out of this. It’s a condition.” He opened the table drawer and took out the handgun, a 9mm officer’s weapon. It made a particular clunk at the wood machine as he slammed it down. “If whatever occurs to him, I don’t care what occurs to the remainder of Sera.”
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