Rise of the Rebellion

They sent General Nathan Washington’s son to hunt a trafficker. He came back with proof the Empire is going to erase the Thirteen Worlds.

Commander George Washington has spent seven years living up to his father’s legacy, one quiet mission at a time. Hellfire Squad doesn’t do politics. They hunt monsters in human skin and put them down.

But the operation on Daegu IX goes wrong before it starts. A target who vanishes on cue. A psionic blackout no one can explain. A torture chamber built for innocent civilians. And underneath all of it, something Washington can’t identify has been watching every move.

What he finds in the forbidden canyon isn’t a trafficker’s hideout. It’s a crashed alien scout, a stolen data core, and a deadline: eleven months until the Thirteen Worlds join the fourteen civilizations the Empire has already swallowed whole.

Now Washington has to hold the canyon against Imperial special forces, expose a traitor buried two levels deep in his own command, and decide who he can still trust, all while carrying a secret that could save the Thirteen Worlds or bury them.

The clock is already running. Hellfire Squad is the only thing standing between the Thirteen Worlds and a war nobody saw coming.