Under Verdant Skies |
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Author:
| Lillycrop, Martine |
ISBN: | 978-1-4921-9566-5 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $11.99 |
Book Description:
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"We currently estimate that 98% of captured soldiers are used as hosts. If captured you, as a soldier, will be forcibly infected. As a host, you will involuntarily contribute to the Harls' offensive capabilities. It is your duty, therefore, to prevent yourself being captured alive. For this reason you will be issued with a cyanide capsule...."The colony world of Mercia is infested with alien parasites called Harls - psychic vampires who use their human hosts to feed on the uninfected....
More Description"We currently estimate that 98% of captured soldiers are used as hosts. If captured you, as a soldier, will be forcibly infected. As a host, you will involuntarily contribute to the Harls' offensive capabilities. It is your duty, therefore, to prevent yourself being captured alive. For this reason you will be issued with a cyanide capsule...."The colony world of Mercia is infested with alien parasites called Harls - psychic vampires who use their human hosts to feed on the uninfected. Their prey are subjected to a hellish cycle of death and revival, driven beyond insanity before being drained of blood, their flesh consumed.Jason Slater is a Special Forces officer fighting the Harls. When his brother is infected and his wife captured for harvesting, he joins a new regiment, the "Superheroes", little realising what it will cost him.