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Twenty-Two
They’d broken out of the narrow canyon that stretched across…

Twenty-Three

Thirty hours after the MMEF’s triumphant return to Mars Prime,…

Twenty-Four

“Down!” Caswell cried, throwing herself facedown into the sand. “We’re…

Twenty-Five

Kaitlin was on the floor in the den playing chess…

Epilogue

Marine Lieutenant Kaitlin Garroway walked through the automatic doors of…


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2039
PROLOGUE
MONDAY, 6 JUNE

Office of the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS)
The Pentagon, Washington, DC
0950 hours EDT

“Christ, CJ! You can’t let them do this to us!”

General Montgomery Warhurst teetered between radically opposing strategies, storming and pleading.
The five-star admiral seated behind the broad and brightly polished oak desk before him was not only his
commanding officer, but his friend. He and Admiral Charles Jordan Gray went way back. They’d been
middies together at the Naval Academy, Warhurst in the Class of ’08, Gray in the Class of ’07. Since
their postings to the five-sided squirrel cage, they’d attended one another’s social affairs, had barbecues
in each other’s backyards, and shared the same wry disdain for Beltway politics. For them, the old
Marine-Navy rivalry was a seal on their friendship, banter and laughing bluster over a couple of beers.

But, by God, Warhurst wasn’t going to let them kill the Corps, wasn’t going to let C. J. Gray kill the