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The year is 2005. Blood from the Second Battle of Fallujah still dries on the farmlands of the Zaidon. But for Stygian 2-3, a young team of Recon Marines, the war is anything but over.
Plaguing their battlespace is an ancient evil. Those who volunteered to ensure "Iraqi Freedom" must fight not only anti-coalition forces, but powers older than the United States, democracy... the world itself.
Publisher: Not Currently Available
Genres:
Tropes: Band of Brothers/Sisters, Becoming a Monster, Book of Spells, Dark Enemy, Evolving Powers, Haunted House, No Cell Coverage, Portals, Secret Society, Waiting/Sleeping Evil
Word Count: 45000
Setting: Iraq in 2005.
Languages Available: English
Tropes: Band of Brothers/Sisters, Becoming a Monster, Book of Spells, Dark Enemy, Evolving Powers, Haunted House, No Cell Coverage, Portals, Secret Society, Waiting/Sleeping Evil
Word Count: 45000
Setting: Iraq in 2005.
Languages Available: English
"You expect me..." the groggy company commander declares, waving his hand at the other staff seated at the table. "You expect us, Corporal Silver, to actually believe that?"
Oppressing the room is also Lieutenant Ashton, their silent platoon sergeant, and the first sergeant in charge of all Stygian platoons. On the other side of the company office, backs against the wall, is Stygian 2-3, looking down at their boots. "You're gonna try to pull the wool over everyone's eyes and stick to every single radio went down, all at once?"
"Sir," Silver sighs. He looks up from the cement, glancing at the gold maple leaf on the company commander's collar before looking him in the eye. "I know how crazy it sounds, but all our radios--even my watch--everything went down when--"
"When what, Corporal?" the major snarls. "When creepy lights 'faded away'?"
Leo Jenkins on author of Lest We Forget wrote:"Military hell from a veteran who's lived it. Rose's Lovecraft's Iraq is slick, cinematic, and surreal. An action adventure of the heroes who give their all, even when there is no winning.”
Brock Hileman on former Recon Marine and David Rose's team leader in Iraq wrote:"Rose effortlessly captures the nuance of an Iraq deployment while conjuring something far more sinister."
“Brought me back to the gritty details of the very real and intense moment-to-moment experiences of combat, woven together with the altogether unreal.”
