Overview
An unknown enemy has been waiting for war. In the summer of 2039, the waiting ends.
From the crushing black depths of the world's oceans, a hidden intelligence has spent years probing humanity's defenses, cataloguing our weapons, and biding its time. When it finally strikes, coordinated assaults erupt against coastal cities across the globe. This enemy arrived from the depths of space and slipped silently into the darkness of our seas.
The United States and the rest of the world are catastrophically unprepared. Humanity's best hope is the ASHUR — a powerful armored combat suit named for the Assyrian god of war. But hardware alone won't be enough. Survival will demand ingenuity, cunning, and a furious, unrelenting will to fight an enemy unlike anything mankind has ever known.
Book One of the LAND&SEA series, Splashdown launches a sweeping military science fiction saga told through the eyes of soldiers, war veterans, and ordinary civilians caught on every front of the conflict. Drawing on nearly four decades of mecha and military fiction storytelling, New York Times bestselling author Blaine L. Pardoe delivers exciting near-future combat, hard-edged tactical realism, and an alien invasion unlike any you've read before.
Tom Clancy and The Expanse meet mecha-charged combat. The fight for tomorrow begins with the initial SPLASHDOWN.
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