The Slab

The Slab by Traviss, Karen. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781439184073.

An original novel based on the groundbreaking and award-winning military sci-fi-action video game series Gears of War€”written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Traviss!Marcus Fenix. War hero. Decorated Gear. Loyal son. Traitor. As the Locust Horde advances into one of humanity’s last bastions€”Ephyra€”after ten years of a bloody global war that has seen billions die, Marcus does the unthinkable: he defies Colonel Hoffman’s orders and abandons his post in the middle of the battle in a bid to rescue his father, weapons scientist Dr. Adam Fenix. But Adam is buried in the rubble of a ferocious assault on the Fenix estate, and Ephyra falls to the enemy. As the Coalition of Ordered Governments struggles to defend Sera’s surviving humans from the invading ";grubs,"; Marcus faces a court martial. Deserting his post in wartime means the death penalty. But his sentence is commuted to forty years in the COG’s mo