To begin with, Commander Dunstan Park has been given control of an experimental ship capable of turning the tides of war. Of all the mysteries of space, how to escape with their lives is the greatest unknown of all. Marko Kloos has evidently settled in for the long run with his grandiose and ambitious series, The Palladium Wars, and in the third book, titled Citadel, he escalates the conflict in the Gaia system even further. The odds against his small crew are stacked high. When the Lankies sense an uninvited presence in their world, Andrew’s operation becomes an expedition to hell. Far from the seemingly mindless aggressors Andrew has battled for years, these show a terrifying awareness, and they have surprising secrets of their own hidden away in the darkness. The second is a nightmare: this harvested rock is infested with Lankies. One is a dream: a form of protein and plant life that could save the starving humans in the rogue system. The last hope for survival is to go where nothing human has gone before.Īfter embarking on a scouting mission to the only moon with surface signs of life, Andrew and his special tactics team make two startling discoveries. Buy the whole collection of books in the The Palladium Wars series online from World of Books. Martin’s long-running Wildcards superhero series, with a story in last year’s installment, Low Chicago. Nine hundred light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and the crew of NACS Washington are marooned in a sunless system with limited water, reactor fuel, and food. The Palladium Wars isn’t the only thing on Kloos’s plate. They can’t let what they’ve found die with them. Stranded light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and his crew are on a desperate mission to discover the Lankies’ secrets.

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