An epic tale of compassion, friendship, power, war, and espionage, plus so much more.

In the early pre-dawn light, a convoy of military vehicles crawled slowly into the blast zone, their tracks cutting deeply into the fallen ash. The lead vehicle, its treads clacking, approached the edge of a deep crater and stopped. Ash drifted out of the sky like dirty snow. The passenger doors of the lead vehicle unsealed and slid upwards with a hydraulic whine. A figure stepped out of each door and stood on top of the vehicle’s caterpillar tracks. Biohazard suits m...