The Slab

MARCUS FENIX. WAR HERO. LOYAL SON. TRAITOR.
Ten years after Emergence Day, as the Locust Horde advances on humanity s last defended area Ephyra in a bloody war that has seen billions die, Marcus Fenix does the unthinkable: he defies orders and abandons his post during a critical battle in a bid [...]
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MARCUS FENIX. WAR HERO. LOYAL SON. TRAITOR.
Ten years after Emergence Day, as the Locust Horde advances on humanity s last defended area Ephyra in a bloody war that has seen billions die, Marcus Fenix does the unthinkable: he defies orders and abandons his post during a critical battle in a bid to rescue his father, weapons scientist Adam Fenix. But Adam is buried in the rubble during a ferocious assault on the Fenix mansion, and Ephyra falls to the enemy. Marcus, grieving for a father everyone believes is dead, is court-martialed for dereliction of duty and sentenced to forty years in the Coalition of Ordered Government s brutal maximum security prison, known simply as the Slab.
But Adam is very much alive, snatched from the destruction by the elite Onyx Guard on Chairman Richard Prescott s orders. He s now a long way from home and in a prison of his own a COG doomsday bunker on the tropical island of Azura, a place hidden from the rest of Sera since the Pendulum Wars. His own guilty secret has been exposed: Adam knew the Locust existed deep below the surface of Sera long before Emergence Day, and were being driven from their tunnels by a lethal parasite known as the Lambent. Now he has to find a way to destroy the Lambent while the dwindling COG forces fight to hold back a growing Locust army that s threatening to overrun the city.
As Adam struggles to find redemption in his comfortable island jail, Marcus seeks his own atonement in the squalid, closed world within the Slab s granite walls. While Dom Santiago and Anya Stroud fight to get him released, ready to make any sacrifice to free him, Marcus gradually finds unexpected kinship among Sera s most dangerous criminals and a way to carry on his personal war against the Locust.
" "" Adam, you knew this day would come. "
"It was a familiar voice: silky, imperial, polished, and utterly human. "
" Hello, Myrrah. Adam Fenix found himself thinking of the terrible Locust food again. You got my message, then. "
" And how right you were. We do need you. And we shall take you. I hope you re not planning anything foolish. You have responsibilities, Adam. "
"It would be a living death. The Locust Queen would never release him, even if he developed a countermeasure. But he didn t deserve any better. "
" I also have my service pistol. "
" And I can take your son at any time. "
"He had the measure of her, then, and she had his. You leave Marcus out of this. It s a condition. He opened the desk drawer and took out the handgun, a 9mm officer s weapon. It made a distinctive clunk on the wooden desktop as he slammed it down. If anything happens to him, I don t care what happens to the rest of Sera. "