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A military science fiction series featuring an elite squad of legendary mercenaries facing a relentless alien swarm. They aren't heroes. They're Exterminators. The Swarm doesn't roar. It doesn't gloat. It simply arrives—a tide of alien chitin and metallic thrashing that flows over the dunes like a living shadow. When the steel walls of a Martian Colony buckle under the biological nightmare, Director Voss calls in the only assets left breathing: The Dust Runners. Led by Captain Reeve Calder, they are a collection of broken legends kept in a drawer labeled 'IN CASE OF NIGHTMARES'. Alongside the blade-master Taylor Nyx, the heavy-gunner Jag, and the masked monk Syn, they are the only ones crazy enough to run toward the breach. But their latest mission uncovers a secret that could unmake the colonies. At a scorched crash site, they find Scraps—a human-Swarm hybrid who shouldn't exist. He isn't a mindless drone; he's a prototype that remembers a child's voice, a creature that chooses to protect rather than consume. As Captain Reeve and his squad race from Martian ruins to the high-tech fortresses of Earth, they realize the horrifying truth: the Swarm was built by human hands to control the colonies. That the Swarm isn't an alien invasion...It's a management tool. RED DUST is an action-packed military sci-fi thrill ride featuring tactical combat, a "found family" of elite misfits, alien bug hunting, and a mystery buried deep beneath the Martian soil.

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467 pages

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