What do you do when everyone you trust to keep you alive wants you dead? When the only man who can stay back and hold the line is the one nobody can do without? And when the one thing that can keep all the survivors alive is going to get everyone killed? Welcome to the darkest night of the Zulu Alpha, where every loyalty is tested, every moral calculus impossible, and every price paid too costly to be borne. The world's last nuclear supercarrier strike group and its exhausted Marine Raider guardians must now range from the coast of fallen America to an unavoidable date with destiny at the farthest northern point of Australia, to the enclosed and exploding death zone of the world's largest offshore oil field – knowing that everywhere, at all times, absolutely everything will be on the line. Betrayal. Redemption. Consecration. DUTY ARISEN Hope Never Dies.