Atticus Bragg was once a decorated soldier with a bright future. Now he wanders the systems doing whatever work he can get. After a simple extraction job goes terribly wrong, he’s broke and desperate, but he soon lucks into an assignment that looks like can’t-miss money—keeping a powerful young nobleman out of trouble in his first combat command. It’s simple: drop planetside with the nobleman’s platoon, hunker down in a quiet sector away from the real fighting, and collect his pay.
But it all goes terribly wrong when their drop ship is hit and crashes in a sun-blasted wasteland far behind enemy lines. Lost, out of communication, and fighting among themselves, Atticus and the survivors must find a way to pull together and get to safety before the horrors of this hostile world eat them alive …
Atticus Bragg was once a decorated soldier with a bright future. Now he wanders the systems doing whatever work he can get. After a simple extraction job goes terribly wrong, he’s broke and desperate, but he soon lucks into an assignment that looks like can’t-miss money—keeping a powerful young nobleman out of trouble in his first combat command. It’s simple: drop planetside with the nobleman’s platoon, hunker down in a quiet sector away from the real fighting, and collect his pay.
But it all goes terribly wrong when their drop ship is hit and crashes in a sun-blasted wasteland far behind enemy lines. Lost, out of communication, and fighting among themselves, Atticus and the survivors must find a way to pull together and get to safety before the horrors of this hostile world eat them alive …