The ATLAS mechanized fight suits will be the pinnacle of armed forces technology, boasting awesome destructive power-but what is behind the armor is only human. Rade Galaal, elite soldier and ATLAS operator, continues to be tested-and broken-by savage battles and devastating losses. Now, a vintage enemy poses a fresh threat.

The vile insectile aliens that once threatened Earth have regrouped to engineer a fresh apocalyptic assault on mankind, and the ATLAS mechs are called to defend the survival from the human race.

Around the desolate, far-flung moons of Tau Ceti II, now there will come a reckoning. Earth’s adversaries are legion, and the planet’s soldiers-for all their rigorous training and amazing ordnance-are only flesh and bloodstream. But they possess a defiant will to survive. Will Rade discover the strength to reforge his shattered nature and defeat the alien onslaught before all is normally lost?