The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves.
The Year is 2040.
Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to split humanity into opposing factions and plunge the Earth into chaos and war. The USMC - a branch of a military considered, until just recently, to be obsolete - has dispatched the Marine Mars Expeditionary Force, a thirty-man weapons platoon, to the Red Planet to protect American civilians and interest with lethal force if necessary.
Because great powers are willing to devastate a world in order to keep an ancient secret buried. Because something that was hidden in the Martian dust for half a million years has just been unearthed . . . something that calls into question every belief that forms the delicate foundation of civilization . . .
Something inexplicably human.
- ISBN10 0380788284
- ISBN13 9780380788286
- Publish Date 18 December 2023 (first published 22 January 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Avon Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English