THE HUNT FOR HUMANITY'S FUTURE SPANS CENTURIES-AND LIGHT-YEARS.Stranded in the year 2275 after a vicious alien abduction tore him from his own era, former Army Ranger Staff Sergeant Daniel McKenzie has traded his combat boots for the bridge of an alien starship. Appointed Supreme Fleet Commander of an allied task force, Daniel commands the battlecruiser Genesis alongside five salvaged capital cruisers rechristened with legendary American carrier names: Enterprise, Hornet, Lexington, Yorktown, and Saratoga.When an automated distress beacon using Cold War U.S. military code pings from deep within the hostile heart of the Thorium Empire, Daniel leaps into the void. What he discovers on the sulfur moon of Skor-Vesh changes the rules of engagement forever: human survivors holding out against impossible odds, thousands of stolen Earth children shipped to the alien throne world, and a biological truth that could turn the tide of the war.Ancient Earth smallpox-a virus conquered on the surface two centuries prior-is an extinction-level plague to the reptilian Thorium.To forge the ultimate weapon, Daniel must return to the occupied cradle of mankind, shatter the twenty-five dreadnoughts blockading Earth's orbit, and penetrate the granite vaults of a secret underground military bunker in the Black Hills. But as Daniel stages a brutal war of attrition across alien star systems and fights to seize the primordial cradle of the Time Matrix, a coded message from his legendary father-John "Mac" McKenzie-reaches across two hundred years of linear time with a chilling warning: DO NOT BRING FUTURE IRON TO THE PAST. FIGHT THEM IN THE PRESENT.Outnumbered ten to one, Daniel and his Esjalon allies must deploy devastating carrier aviation and delayed bio-penetrators against an armada of one thousand warships. To save the children, avenge the fallen, and break the timeline's greatest paradox, the prey must become the galaxy's deadliest predator.
