Suicide drop onto the lunar surface. Alien monsters turned into weapons. Mercenaries who want Felix dead.
Felix Valda survived Titan, Europa, Mars, and Venus. Every world took something the corporations don't itemize. Now FSU owns his collar, and his first deployment is a kinetic drop—eight hundred meters above the lunar surface with boot thrusters that fire once at ten meters and a corporate AI that counts silence as consent.
The Moon should be easy. The briefing says Level 3 Hanbiri infestation. Breeding queen confirmed. But the queen is starving. The native Hanbiri are translucent, cowering things that haven't been a threat in a billion years. The real monsters—four-meter armored berserkers with layered chitin and surgical scars where their hive-mind used to be—aren't natural. Someone captured the starving ones. Fed them nuclear isotopes until they grew into siege engines. Cut out the part of their brain that could be reasoned with. Then pointed them at colonies and pushed a button.
Every swarm that hit a settlement. Every colony that signed a 25% lien under duress. Every recruitment poster that appeared before the threat arrived. Manufactured. All of it.
The squad is more machine than human now—turbines where organs used to be, chrome where flesh gave out. One of them is losing his skin to radiation and facing the one thing he swore he'd never accept. And deep inside a secret research base two kilometers beneath the surface, Chen finds the proof that could expose the entire conspiracy—seconds before the servers burn themselves to slag.
The bill for six worlds of survival comes due on the Moon, and the price is more than Felix can afford to pay.
Gritty military sci-fi where the bugs are weapons and the corporations are the ones who built them. If you've followed Felix from Titan's ice to Venus's crushing clouds, Lunar Zero is where the enemy finally has a name.
Book 6 of 9 in the Conscript Zero series. The fight continues on Kindle Unlimited.
Genre: Science Fiction
Felix Valda survived Titan, Europa, Mars, and Venus. Every world took something the corporations don't itemize. Now FSU owns his collar, and his first deployment is a kinetic drop—eight hundred meters above the lunar surface with boot thrusters that fire once at ten meters and a corporate AI that counts silence as consent.
The Moon should be easy. The briefing says Level 3 Hanbiri infestation. Breeding queen confirmed. But the queen is starving. The native Hanbiri are translucent, cowering things that haven't been a threat in a billion years. The real monsters—four-meter armored berserkers with layered chitin and surgical scars where their hive-mind used to be—aren't natural. Someone captured the starving ones. Fed them nuclear isotopes until they grew into siege engines. Cut out the part of their brain that could be reasoned with. Then pointed them at colonies and pushed a button.
Every swarm that hit a settlement. Every colony that signed a 25% lien under duress. Every recruitment poster that appeared before the threat arrived. Manufactured. All of it.
The squad is more machine than human now—turbines where organs used to be, chrome where flesh gave out. One of them is losing his skin to radiation and facing the one thing he swore he'd never accept. And deep inside a secret research base two kilometers beneath the surface, Chen finds the proof that could expose the entire conspiracy—seconds before the servers burn themselves to slag.
The bill for six worlds of survival comes due on the Moon, and the price is more than Felix can afford to pay.
Gritty military sci-fi where the bugs are weapons and the corporations are the ones who built them. If you've followed Felix from Titan's ice to Venus's crushing clouds, Lunar Zero is where the enemy finally has a name.
Book 6 of 9 in the Conscript Zero series. The fight continues on Kindle Unlimited.
Genre: Science Fiction
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