Ballantine Books
July 2015
On Sale: June 23, 2015
Featuring: Danny Kelso
ISBN: 034554885X EAN: 9780345548856 Kindle: B00NRQLWP6 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Brad Thor meets Avatar in this timely thriller for the drone age as award-winning author Christopher Golden spins the troubles of today into the apocalypse of tomorrow.
After political upheaval, economic collapse, and environmental disaster, the world has become a hotspot, boiling over into chaos of near apocalyptic proportions. In this perpetual state of emergency, all that separates order from anarchy is the military might of a United States determined to keep peace among nations waging a free-for-all battle for survival and supremacy.
But a conflict unlike any before demands an equally unprecedented fighting force on its front lines. Enter the Remote Infantry Corps: robot soldiers deployed in war zones around the world, controlled by human operators thousands of miles from the action. PFC Danny Kelso is one of these βTin Men,β stationed with his fellow platoon members at a subterranean base in Germany, steering their cybernetic avatars through combat in the civil-war-ravaged streets of Syria. Immune to injury and death, this brave new breed of American warrior has a battlefield edge thatβs all but unstoppableβuntil a flesh-and-blood enemy targets the Tin Menβs high-tech advantage in a dangerously game-changing counter strike.
When anarchists unleash a massive electromagnetic pulse, short-circuiting the worldβs technology, Kelso and his comrades-in-arms find themselves trappedβtheir minds tethered within their robot bodies and, for the first time, their lives at risk.
Now, with rocket-wielding βBot Killersβ gunning for them, and desperate members of the unit threatening to go rogue, itβs the worst possible time for the Tin Men to face their most crucial mission. But an economic summit is under terrorist attack, the U.S. president is running for his life, and the men and women of the 1st Remote Infantry Division must take the fight to the next levelβif they want to be the last combatants standing, not the first of their kind to fall forever.
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