Showing results for "The Protector" in First Contact

It's coming up on Cajeiri's birthday. The boy has been promised he can have the young human children he knew from his voyage sent down from the space station for a two week stay. But there's a far darker business going on in the background - a major split compromising the Assassins' Guild, which furnishes security and law enforcement to the whole continent. Tabini's consort's own father has been barred from court, and may be involved in a new conspiracy against him.

With its last gasp, a wounded alien injects Shepherd with a high-tech serum that gives him near superhuman powers. Now, with a new body but a soul as fractured as ever, Shepherd becomes the reluctant leader of the human resistance against the coming invasion. With enemies on all sides, the man who couldn’t bear the guilt of seeing one more friend die in battle now finds himself charged with protecting the entire planet.

La novela empieza rememorando un recuerdo del protagonista, Marc Kionaru: las noches veraniegas de su infancia cuando iba a pasar los días a casa de sus abuelos. Su memoria se impregna del recuerdo de una noche, cuando estaba admirando la belleza del firmamento diseminado con su abuelo Tom. En ese momento, sin esperarlo, un ovni con una refulgente luz verde invadió el cielo. Marc, le pregunta a su abuelo qué es eso. Este le responde de forma enigmática que algún día lo sabrá.