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The Chaos: A Jack Harper prequel to the Broken Light Years Series
Paperback
Series: The Broken Light Years, Book 3
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 26 2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
By E.M. Thomben
Before Jack Harper flew into legend, he flew into hell.
On the edge of Union-controlled space, veteran pilot Jack Harper is pulled into one last mission-a low-profile escort gig transporting a so-called science team to a lifeless moon in the Drift. No questions. No details. Just silence, sealed crates, and the wrong kind of people calling themselves civilians.
But the moon isn't dead. The team isn't scientific. And the mission is anything but clean.
When an ambush leaves half the convoy destroyed, Jack barely escapes with his life, his war-weary co-pilot, and Valkyrie-an AI with secrets buried as deep as the Union's classified ghost archives. What they've stumbled into isn't an op gone wrong-it's Protocol Ember, a scorched-earth cover-up wrapped around something ancient, intelligent, and alive.
An entity that remembers.
Hunted by Echo Fleet, betrayed by his own command, and pursued across hostile space by a signal that can infect machines-and minds-Jack must uncover the truth before the next system burns. Because this isn't just about survival.
It's about containment.
And the Chaos isn't coming.
It's already here.
Perfect for fans of The Expanse, Mass Effect, and Battlestar Galactica, The Chaos is a breakneck sci-fi thriller packed with corrupted AIs, blacksite conspiracies, and desperate heroes caught in a war no one was meant to remember.
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