Series: Book 4 in the Earth's Last Gambit series
Rating: ****
Tags: EN-SciFi, Lang:en
Summary
The Spirit of Destiny is a wreck. Earth faces a brutal alien conquest. A pilot without a ship gambles everything on one last
shot. When the Spirit of Destiny crashed on the moon, Earth's last
hope of escaping alien conquest was lost. Pilot Jack Kildare
and the battle-hardened crew of the SoD survived, but they are
trapped in Earth's ramshackle little moon colony, exposed to
the constant threat of alien attack. On Earth, the alien behemoth Lightbringer lies in the
African jungle, grounded but no less deadly. Its crew spread
destruction across a planet racked by conflict. Former
astronaut Hannah Ginsburg inherits a dangerous role as
go-between for the aliens and humankind. As much as she
struggles to rein in the spreading chaos, her complicity in the
alien conquest grows, pushing her nearer to the breaking
point. Meanwhile, on the moon, Jack is desperate to get back to
Earth and rejoin the fight. But the moon colonists side with
the aliens, forcing him to lie and steal just to survive. His
chance for redemption comes unexpectedly, when shipmate Skyler
Taft detects a horrific new threat to our solar system. Humanity and aliens, locked in a bitter war for our planet,
will all perish together ... unless Jack can achieve the
impossible, and work together with his worst enemy to save
Earth.