18-year-old Megan was the first to see the gilded job offer come down from the sky.
It meant a once in a lifetime chance at financial security and not having to jog all over the vertical city's slums all day every day just to eat and stay out of jail. She ran like the wind to catch the offer - risking the danger of working for an Olympian.
Now she's told she will be leading a guerrilla army to reclaim Earth from its Martian overlords. The Olympians have long had an unbreakable hold over Earth, with billions of riot control drones and mental maps of much of the population that allow for predictive policing.
It's an impossible job - and she hasn't even been paid yet.
Turns out the rebellion does have a couple of tricks up their sleeve: surprise, and a drone-scrambling technology called Tulpas. Megan's new military-grade Intuitive Neural Interface allows her to bond with Kitsune, a refurbished experimental fighting vehicle made for yesterday's wars. But will even their determination and unconventional machinery be enough for her tiny team to make a dent in Olympian control?
3 humans and 3 fighting mecha - against all of Mars's military might.
Fans of Firefly, Pacific Rim, and other stories of a small band of friends in a last ditch effort against overwhelming military force will find this a heart-stopping new story to get lost in.
Some of the early reviews:
★★★★★ from Amazon:
Looking very forward to the sequel
"The world is very richly thought out, and you could tell that there are many more layers of detail that weren't touched upon in order to keep the story pacing fast.
The action sequences were fast and satisfying, tense mecha battles, which culminated in a nice climax.
Earths characters are interesting and sympathetic, and their Martian counterparts are pleasantly inhuman."