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Twenty-Two
TheyтАЩd broken out of the narrow canyon that stretched acrossтАж

Twenty-Three

Thirty hours after the MMEFтАЩs triumphant return to Mars Prime,тАж

Twenty-Four

тАЬDown!тАЭ Caswell cried, throwing herself facedown into the sand. тАЬWeтАЩreтАж

Twenty-Five

Kaitlin was on the floor in the den playing chessтАж

Epilogue

Marine Lieutenant Kaitlin Garroway walked through the automatic doors ofтАж


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2039
PROLOGUE
MONDAY, 6 JUNE

Office of the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS)
The Pentagon, Washington, DC
0950 hours EDT

тАЬChrist, CJ! You canтАЩt let them do this to us!тАЭ

General Montgomery Warhurst teetered between radically opposing strategies, storming and pleading.
The five-star admiral seated behind the broad and brightly polished oak desk before him was not only his
commanding officer, but his friend. He and Admiral Charles Jordan Gray went way back. TheyтАЩd been
middies together at the Naval Academy, Warhurst in the Class of тАЩ08, Gray in the Class of тАЩ07. Since
their postings to the five-sided squirrel cage, theyтАЩd attended one anotherтАЩs social affairs, had barbecues
in each otherтАЩs backyards, and shared the same wry disdain for Beltway politics. For them, the old
Marine-Navy rivalry was a seal on their friendship, banter and laughing bluster over a couple of beers.

But, by God, Warhurst wasnтАЩt going to let them kill the Corps, wasnтАЩt going to let C. J. Gray kill the