Warfare Infinitus

GY 4,376. The Old Empire has been fighting the same war for one thousand and forty-seven years.

Specialist-Warden Cej Cael doesn't believe in anything - not the Empire, not the war, not the idea that survival means the same thing as purpose. He fights because the alternative is a firing squad. His sergeant, Rocks Caelid, has been keeping a record book for twenty years: every soldier who died, named instead of numbered, because someone has to say the names.

What begins as a unit of misfits grinding through an impossible desert campaign becomes something neither of them planned for - a fracture in the institution that built them, a civilization deciding in real time what it is willing to become, and a coalition being built by a man who has spent thirty years turning the worst thing that ever happened to him into something that might make it impossible for it to happen to someone else.

Warfare Infinitus: Squad Defect is the first book in an epic science fiction trilogy set across a galaxy of eight factions at war. It is a story about what institutions cost the people inside them, what names mean when the system calls you a number, and what it takes to build something in the ruins of what the war produced.

For readers of Joe Abercrombie, Dan Abnett, and Iain M. Banks.