Marooned behind enemy lines…a desperate fight to survive…and a mysterious terror that comes only in the night…

When soldier of fortune Atticus Bragg accepts a job to shepherd a young nobleman in his first combat command, it looks like easy money—drop in with the platoon, relax in a quiet sector away from the real fighting, and collect his pay. Easy, right?

But it all goes wrong when their drop ship is hit on the way to the surface and crashes in a barren wilderness, far behind enemy lines. Lost and fighting among themselves, Atticus and the survivors must come together to battle the horrors of a hostile alien world or none of them will get out alive…