Sign-In
Cart
Assassination Type
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 29 2026
Pages: 550
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The machines were never empty.
Earth's most powerful mechs are failing.
Pilots hear voices inside their cockpits. They experience memories that are not their own. Some lose control of their machines entirely, just as a coordinated creature assault begins dismantling the planet's transportation, communications, and defenses.
Veteran pilot Jack Mercer is assigned to protect four young commanders who may be humanity's best chance of understanding the invasion. He operates B-232, a classified assassination frame designed to disable rogue mechs and eliminate their pilots. Unlike every modern combat machine, B-232 contains no biological core, making it one of the only frames still capable of obeying its pilot.
As Jack and the commanders investigate, they uncover evidence that Earth Defense Command has hidden for decades. The biological systems powering humanity's mechs are not passive components. They remember the laboratories, the restraints, and the hands that transformed them into weapons.
The invasion is being directed from Mars by Mara Mercer, Jack's daughter.
Eight years earlier, Mara survived a catastrophic neural-link experiment that forced years of creature memories through her mind in less than two minutes. No one believed what she experienced. Now she commands an alliance of the beings humanity harvested, and she intends to make Earth understand their suffering, even if innocent people must share it.
Jack has been ordered to destroy the Martian coordination network and assassinate Mara.
To stop the war, he must confront the institution he served, the pilots he once hunted, and the daughter he failed to protect.
B-232 was created to kill rogue pilots.
Jack is beginning to understand who made them rogue.
Also from
Wilson, Robert
Guide to Dumfries and Surrounding Neighbourhood, Via the Glasgow and South-Western Railway
Wilson, Robert
Paperback
Guide to Dumfries and Surrounding Neighbourhood, Via the Glasgow and South-Western Railway
Wilson, Robert
Hardcover
An Address Delivered Before The St. John's Hunting Club, At Indianfield Plantation (1907)
Wilson, Robert
Hardcover
The Art of Connection: A Guide to Effective, Confident, Fluent, Assertive & Persuasive Communication
Wilson, Robert
Paperback
Infant Baptism: A Scriptural Service, And Dipping Unnecessary To Its Right Administration (1848)
Wilson, Robert
Paperback
Prostitution Suppressible And Resistance To The Contagious Diseases, Women's Acts: A Duty (1871)
Wilson, Robert
Paperback
Infant Baptism: A Scriptural Service, And Dipping Unnecessary To Its Right Administration (1848)
Wilson, Robert
Paperback
A Sketch Of The History Of Hawick: Including Some Account Of The Manners And Character Of The Inhabitants (1825)
Wilson, Robert
Paperback
Prostitution Suppressible And Resistance To The Contagious Diseases, Women's Acts: A Duty (1871)
Wilson, Robert
Paperback
The Three Lords And Three Ladies Of London: Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte Des Englischen Dramas (1885)
Fernow, Hans Eduard
Wilson, Robert
Paperback
The Three Lords And Three Ladies Of London: Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte Des Englischen Dramas (1885)
Fernow, Hans Eduard
Wilson, Robert
Paperback
Boiler And Factory Chimneys: Their Draught-Power And Stability, With A Chapter On Lightning Conductors (1899)
Wilson, Robert
Paperback
Boiler And Factory Chimneys: Their Draught-Power And Stability, With A Chapter On Lightning Conductors (1899)
Wilson, Robert
Paperback
An Address Delivered Before The St. John's Hunting Club, At Indianfield Plantation (1907)
Wilson, Robert
Hardcover
Also in
Science Fiction
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
Balle, Solvej
Paperback
Red Rising 3-Book Box Set: Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star, and an Exclusive Extended Excerpt of Iron Gold
Brown, Pierce
Paperback