Book description
Earth is conquered. The Shongairi have arrived in force, and humanity's
cities lie in radioactive ruins. In mere minutes, over half the human
race has died.
Now Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky, who thought he was being rotated
home from his latest tour in Afghanistan, finds himself instead prowling
the back country of the Balkans, dodging alien patrols and trying to
organize the scattered survivors without getting killed.
His chances look bleak. The aliens have definitely underestimated human
tenacity - but no amount of heroism can endlessly hold off overwhelming force.
Then, emerging from the mountains and forests of Eastern Europe, new
allies present themselves to the ragtag human resistance. Predators,
creatures of the night, human in form but inhumanly strong. Long Enemies
of humanity . . . until now. Because now is the time to defend Earth.
David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author
whose most popular and enduring character, Honor Harrington, has been
developed through 13 novels and four shared-universe anthologies.
