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Mars will be the battleground for the fate of humanity—and the future of an alien civilization—in this gripping science-fiction suspense novel.
Against all odds, Lt. Ryan Braeder has kept the colonists on Europa alive, forging the refugees into a community and the ice-covered moon into a home. After a biological plague wiped out Earth’s population, the planet remains uninhabitable, leaving Europa the last bastion of civilization. And its inhabitants’ continued existence is directly related to the ancient artifact discovered beneath the frozen landscape that’s telepathically linked to Braeder.
When a distress signal unexpectedly arrives from a Martian settlement under attack by an army of bloodthirsty mutants, Braeder is forced to mount a rescue mission to save the colonists. Arriving on the Red Planet, he learns the culprit is his old enemy, Wilshire. The Ceres survivor intends to transform Mars’s inhabitants into zombie soldiers, inoculating them against Earth’s plague so he can conquer the planet and remake humanity in his own image.
Outnumbered and outgunned, Braeder must find a way to stop Wilshire once and for all. And he has an unexpected ally in this war: the entity that can not only communicate with him but infuse him with strange powers. But the alien consciousness has objectives of its own, and Braeder must determine if they align with his or if it’s only using him to further its agenda. The survival of the human race depends on it.
Praise for Extinction
“An interstellar yarn wrought with suspense and indelible characters.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Leviathan Wakes meets Battlestar Galactica in this high-stakes story of survival on the moon of Jupiter. Heart-pounding and thrilling, Extinction follows an unlikely leader as he races to save humanity against impossible odds.” —Claire Barner, author of Moonrising
“This insightful glimpse into our possible future is a must read.” —Sue Nelson Buckley, author of The Trouble with Jake and Hiding in Plain Sight
“Packed with intense action, layered characters, and thought-provoking dilemmas . . . This is a story that lingers, making you ponder the fragile line between extinction and survival.” —Literary Titan
Michael Simon is the author of the First Command trilogy and Extinction series. He hails from Saint John, Canada, where he works as a family physician to support his writing addiction. An avid science fiction and fantasy reader, Simon enjoys spinning new tales and going where no one has gone before.