The mysterious underwater aliens dubbed the Fish, continue their brutal war with humanity around the globe. ASHUR’s and Tridents; powerful armored Mecha suits, are holding the line, but the war escalates to new levels of carnage as the aliens are determined to press inland. Adam Cain and Natalia Falto are back in the war, exploring new weapons and tactics to tip the scales into mankind’s advantage. Manhattan is a devastated warzone that a grizzled NYPD detective still fights to protect. A gifted ASHUR pilot’s luck runs out in the most heinous way imaginable while a Ukrainian war survivor takes the war to the alien’s doorstep. Humankind struggles to grapple with the complexities of a new war. Old national rivalries still give the aliens the upper hand. Warriors like Colonel Ashton Slade learn that the aliens are nothing compared with the evil that fellow men possess. As the war rages around all of them, they learn that the hardest course to plot is through a cyclone of chaos. This novel is the first of the second season trilogy, advancing the war and the storyline into the second year of the ultimate conflict for control of the Earth.