Jeffrey Holt tears apart decommissioned ships that have been crash-landed in the Nevada desert. He’s a shipbreaker, no one of consequence—just as he wants it. However, decades after his role in the world mattered, someone is trying to kill him. Searching for a reason, he tears into the bridge of a derelict Kappa-Class freighter and finds corpses. As he stands on the bridge considering how to stay alive, a hand grips his leg…

“An advanced extraterrestrial race must, as humans have, evolve into a peaceful society.” -From Senate Majority Leader Sebastian Flynn’s commencement speech at MIT “Fifty years later we’re still debating this? An obsolete military desperate to justify itself fabricated that war.” -President John Moore two weeks before the destruction of Europa Base “Those veterans suffer only from memory implants. They’re a senseless burden.” -Excerpt from Vice President Samantha Creswell’s California campaign debate “Please forgive us for what we’ve allowed to happen.” -Note found in the rubble of the Oval Office “We won’t make the same mistake they did… They left some of us alive.” -Fleet Admiral Jeffrey Holt To found out how the Hammerhead series is helping veterans today go to www.JasonAndrewBond.com.

Jeffrey Holt has been a defender his entire life, but the time for defense has ended. His vision will set the human race on a singular, brutal purpose. To be truly free, they must leave the tenuous safety of Earth, make the Sthenos their prey, and eradicate them. However, as Holt's juggernaut realizes its full strength, he finds, for the first time, the cost of war is more than he's willing to pay.