Gavin Smith - Crysis - Escalation

Jakob Douglas, damaged soldier and unlikely hero, returns in another desperate, adrenalin-fueled adventure from Gavin Smith, author of the widely acclaimed Veteran.

We are machines, we are animals, we are hybrids. But some things never change. The Church knows we have kept our sins.

Published April 2013.

Thanks to Michael Read, Tim Partlett, Steven Bender and Rasmus Hoejengaard at Crytek for their support, ideas, contributions and hospitality in Frankfurt. Thanks also to Guy Perkins at EA, and Steven Hall, Richard Morgan and Peter Watts.

Particular thanks to a very patient and diplomatic editor, Marcus Gipps. And to Chris Edwards and Cat Halsworth, the former for help with research, the latter for putting up with the research (we were playing video games).

Veteran

War in Heaven

The Age of Scorpio

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First published in Great Britain in 2013 by

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This eBook first published in 2013 by Gollancz.

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ISBN 978 0 575 11584 2

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