No child should ever be a soldier. Jon Moore knew that better than most,having learned to fight to survive before he’d hit puberty. So when aformer comrade, Alissa Lim, asks for his help in rescuing a group of childrenpressed into service by rebels on a planet no one cares to save, he agrees. Onlylater does he realize he’s signed up to do far more than he’d everimagined. Jon’s commitment hurtles him and Lobo, the hyper-intelligentassault vehicle who is his only real friend, into confrontations with thehorrors the children have experienced — and with a dark chapter from hispast.

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