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description: Book One of Portal Wars the new series by the author of the bestselling Crimson Worlds series...Erastus. An unimaginable nightmare. A searing hot world covered with cracked burning deserts and sweltering jungles. A hostile planet far from Earth it was the most hellish place men have ever tried to survive. Called Gehenna by the condemned men sent to fight there it forged the few who survived its murderous battles into the strongest soldiers in history.Jake Taylor was a New Hampshire farmboy who wanted nothing more than to marry his girlfriend work on the farm and maybe one day write a great novel. But mankind was fighting the alien Tegeri and their bio-mechanical cyborg soldiers and UN Central needed menmen to go to war on hostile worlds like Erastus.Jake wasnt given a choice not a real one. He found himself torn from home and family conscripted for life and shipped to Erastus to take his place in the battle lines never to return. In this alien hell Taylor and his cybernetically-enhanced comrades fight their never-ending war against the servants of the Tegeri the manufactured soldiers they call simply the Machines.Jake survives battle after battle rising steadily through the ranks giving all to the desperate fight to save Earth. But endless combat in hell carries a cost and Taylor can feel himself losing what little is left of his spirit his humanity. When he finally discovers a terrible secretthat everything hed believed all hed fought for his entire life was nothing but a monstrous lie he must decide who is the real enemy and how far he is willing to go to right a horrific wrong.And if he does what he must to prevail against overwhelming odds and win the final victory will he be able to control the growing madness insideor will he be become the very thing he has sworn to destroy?The Crimson Worlds SeriesBy Jay AllanCrimson Worlds I: Marines Crimson Worlds II: The Cost of Victory Crimson Worlds III: A Little Rebellion Crimson Worlds IV: The First Imperium Crimson Worlds V: The Line Must Hold Crimson Worlds VI: To Hell's Heart Tombstone: A Crimson Worlds Prequel Bitter Glory: A Crimson Worlds Prequel Coming December 2013: Crimson Worlds VII: The Shadow Legions
language: English
title: Gehenna Dawn
publisher: System 7 Publishing