num_pages: 464
description: MARCUS FENIX. WAR HERO. LOYAL SON. TRAITOR. Ten years after Emergence Day as the Locust Horde advances on humanitys last defended areaEphyrain a bloody war that has seen billions die Marcus Fenix does the unthinkable: he defies orders and abandons his post during a critical battle in a bid to rescue his father weapons scientist Adam Fenix. But Adam is buried in the rubble during a ferocious assault on the Fenix mansion and Ephyra falls to the enemy. Marcus grieving for a father everyone believes is dead is court-martialed for dereliction of duty and sentenced to forty years in the Coalition of Ordered Governments brutal maximum security prison known simply as the Slab.But Adam is very much alive snatched from the destruction by the elite Onyx Guard on Chairman Richard Prescotts orders. Hes now a long way from home and in a prison of his owna COG doomsday bunker on the tropical island of Azura a place hidden from the rest of Sera since the Pendulum Wars. His own guilty secret has been exposed: Adam knew the Locust existed deep below the surface of Sera long before Emergence Day and were being driven from their tunnels by a lethal parasite known as the Lambent. Now he has to find a way to destroy the Lambent while the dwindling COG forces fight to hold back a growing Locust army thats threatening to overrun the city.As Adam struggles to find redemption in his comfortable island jail Marcus seeks his own atonement in the squalid closed world within the Slabs granite walls. While Dom Santiago and Anya Stroud fight to get him released ready to make any sacrifice to free him Marcus gradually finds unexpected kinship among Seras most dangerous criminalsand a way to carry on his personal war against the Locust.
language: English
title: The Slab
publisher: Gallery Books