Is she going mad because of the war and the drugs the corps keeps on feeding her? What is happening with the war and who is she even fighting for or… against? Dietz’s first jump doesn’t go as planned and everything goes downhill from there. However, some soldiers don’t come back right from the jumps: some see things they aren’t supposed to see, some loose limbs or memories, some become mad and some start experiencing time differently. To fight against the Martians quickly and efficiently, the corps have invented the perfect solution: turning soldiers into light beams and sending them where they need them in a matter of seconds. But she doesn’t care, she’ll end Mars or she’ll die trying. However, Dietz knows her chances of coming back from the war are slim.

She’ll have access to healthcare, comfortable housing and education. If she fights for Tene long enough, she’ll earn a corp citizenship.

For Dietz, the war is a chance to avenge her family. Except the aliens aren’t aliens at all: they are humans who decided to cut themselves off from Earth to create a better world on Mars.įor the Big Six, the situation is unthinkable and the Blink is the perfect excuse to end Mars once and for all. Her mission is to protect the planet against the alien threat who caused the Blink: the disappearance of millions of people living in São Paolo, including Dietz’s entire family.

Book Reviewĭietz is a soldier working for the Tene-Silvia Corporation, one of the six corporations currently ruling Earth. Is Dietz really experiencing the war differently, or is it combat madness? Trying to untangle memory from mission brief and survive with sanity intact, Dietz is ready to become a hero-or maybe a villain in war it’s hard to tell the difference. And Dietz’s bad drops tell a story of the war that’s not at all what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think is going on. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief-no matter what actually happens during combat.ĭietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops that don’t sync up with the platoon’s. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…different. Publication Date : April 2nd 2019 Publisher’s description Genre : Science Fiction, Military fiction, Dystopia

The light brigade kameron hurley