Product DescriptionIn book five of The Sands Wars, Jack Storm is forced to become a ghostly avenger when Emperor Pepys betrays the Dominion Knights into an alliance with their long-time enemy, the alien Thraks. But will his mission of vengeance spell Jack's own doom? Original.

A GROWL PIERCED THE AIR—The sound set the hair on Jack’s neck on end. He forced himself to turn around.They stood in rows like gaming pieces upended in the sand, in armor that might as well be empty for all the animation they showed. The face plates were screened, reflecting a charcoal emptiness back at him. Jack was afraid, deathly afraid, because he knew what was going to happen next.The armor groaned. It was a sound that came from deep in the earth, vibrating upward through stone layers and sand, and Jack shuddered to hear it. He needed to get into his own armor, for protection and power, but he stood, rooted.The armor facing him represented men he’d trained with and led, but these were no longer men. And then he heard it, the noise of a suit of armor tearing apart, as the beast within burst out.Huge. Bigger than the armor, cloaked in shreds of bone and flesh that had once been human, the great gray-green reptile smashed forth. White teeth flashed and red eyes burned, and a frill went up as the berserker charged Jack…

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