epub | 5.58 MB | English| Isbn:1230003517215 | Author: Aer-ki Jyr | Year: 2025

Quote:Discharged from the Navy SEALs for war crimes he didn't commit, James Edward Barry "Jeb" only wants to forget about the wife whose suicide he may have caused, his estranged daughter, and the bastards who set him up. But the world is soon thrown into turmoil at the arrival of extra-terrestrials offering humankind an invitation to join The Ascendant, an alliance of alien races sharing secrets of the universe, incredible advances in technology and medicine, as well as protection from outside invasion. Membership, however, must be earned, only by defeating The Ascendant's fifteen best warriors in a gruesome elimination tournament called Gauntlet. To refuse the offer or lose Gauntlet results in a full invasion of Earth.
In order to save his daughter's future, Jeb joins the many special ops soldiers from across the globe testing for E15-those supremely lethal men and women who will represent humankind and fight The Ascendant's fifteen to the death. After surviving the brutal testing, Jeb and the rest of E15 journey to Avex, a strange, savage planet that serves as The Ascendant's battleground. It is on Avex that Jeb must face not only fifteen intergalactic warriors who will stop at nothing to destroy him, but also the darkness of an unreconciled past.
If Jeb and E15 fall, humankind falls with them