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The ghost brigades

by John Scalzi

Elite soldiers of the Colonial Defence Forces, engineered from the DNA of the dead, must repel a hostile alien alliance. A hybrid soldier created from a traitor's genetic code struggles with surfacing memories that reveal a conspiracy against humanity.

Accession 33252 ISBN 1596061316 Publisher Subterranean Press
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