Nach zwei Jahren in einem Kriegsgefangenenlager kommt Lia Johansen frei und wird auf die Raumstation New Sol gebracht. Sie hat kaum Erinnerungen an die vergangenen Jahre, was sie auf einen kürzlich erlittenen Stromstoß zurückführt. Doch die Wahrheit ist jenseits aller Vorstellungskraft. Denn plötzlich startet in Lias Kopf ein Countdown: 35:59:59. Lia weiß auf einmal: Sie ist eine lebende, genetisch modifizierte Bombe, und sie soll die Raumstation in die Luft jagen. Doch erst muss sie es schaffen, 36 Stunden lang unentdeckt zu bleiben. Ein atemberaubender Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt.
Archangel is the second installment of the explosive, pulse-pounding Spectre War science fiction series.
An enemy you can't kill. A soldier who can't fight. An interstellar war that can't be won—until now.
As a soldier of the Celestial Expanse, Guardian First Class Michael Sorenson knows better than anyone that when the Spectres invade, there are only two options—run or die.
However, his defensive war takes on a whole new spin when he’s recruited into Division 7, a research and development facility with the ultimate mission: to create a large-scale weapon that can kill Spectres en masse.
Here Michael joins a team of military elite who have the daring—and dangerous—task of taking new weapons prototypes out into the field for testing on enemy troops. Yet the closer they come to developing a working WMD, the more it becomes clear: there’s a saboteur in R&D.
With all signs pointing to a massive Spectre attack brewing on the horizon, the creation of a new weapons system yields an opportunity to end the threat once and for all. As the days count down toward its launch, Michael must hunt down the saboteur…before the saboteur kills again.
The clock activates so suddenly in my mind, my head involuntarily jerks a bit to the side. The fog vanishes, dissipated in an instant as though it never was. Memories come slotting into place, their edges sharp enough to leave furrows, and suddenly I know. I know exactly who I am.
My name is Lia Johansen, and I was named for a prisoner of war. She lived in the Tiersten Internment Colony for two years, and when they negotiated the return of the prisoners, I was given her memories and sent back in her place.
And I am a genetically engineered human bomb.
Lia Johansen was created for only one purpose: to slip onto the strategically placed New Sol Space Station and explode. But her mission goes to hell when her clock malfunctions, freezing her countdown with just two minutes to go. With no Plan B, no memories of her past, and no identity besides a name stolen from a dead POW, Lia has no idea what to do next. Her life gets even more complicated when she meets Michael Sorenson, the real Lia’s childhood best friend.
Drawn to Michael and his family against her better judgment, Lia starts learning what it means to live and love, and to be human. It is only when her countdown clock begins sporadically losing time that she realizes even duds can still blow up. If she wants any chance at a future, she must find a way to unlock the secrets of her past and stop her clock. But as Lia digs into her origins, she begins to suspect there’s far more to her mission and to this war, than meets the eye. With the fate of not just a space station but an entire empire hanging in the balance, Lia races to find the truth before her time—literally—runs out.
