by Jamie Sawyer
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: KRELL
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: GOODBYE
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: SECTION EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: THE DARK PROTOCOL
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: RUINS OF THE OLD WORLD
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: EXECUTION
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: THE RUN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: I’M LAZARUS
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: YOU HAVE THE CHOICE OF SURRENDER
CHAPTER THIRTY: WAR NO END
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: THROUGH THE RIFT
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: WRECK
Acknowledgements
Meet the Author
Also by Jamie Sawyer
Bonus Material
About Orbit Short Fiction
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Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2015 by Jamie Sawyer
Excerpt from Ancestral Machines copyright © 2015 by Michael Cobley
Excerpt from War Dogs copyright © 2014 by Greg Bear
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Cover art by Ioan Dumitrescu
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First eBook edition: September 2015
ISBN: 978-0-316-38644-9
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