Publisher's Synopsis
As Kurt, Zara and the rest of Col Sec are dealing with the events detailed within The Blackstar Gambit, Jake Riley and the Wildfire Team have their own mission.
Sent to an Independent World, Genotia to help a friend of Doctor Baxter, the inventor of the serum that changed Kurt Stryder forever, the Wildfire Team have to fight a rogue faction of the planet's military who had been altered beyond recognition. Baxter had given his friend a batch of the serum to enhance his friends military to help in their Civil War but the batch had been defective and deemed unsafe by Col Sec due to the increase of aggression in the test subjects, something Doctor Garrison had said might help. The serum changed the recipients into huge berserkers of monstrous size and rage they called the War Dogs.
The Orion Cartel learned of this serum and sent someone to acquire it for themselves.
Fighting on two fronts the Wildfire Team must save a fellow soldier, Captain Alex Thorne once the leader of the War Dogs and prevent him from becoming the monster that the people of Genotia had been warned of. An elite force from Genotia was sent to terminate what was left of the War Dogs and the Orion Cartel want what the War Dogs had become so they can rule the galaxy.
Can Jake and his team succeed this time light years from Confederation space with danger all around them their fight becomes one of survival not just for themselves but for the entire galaxy.
