The Third Frontier War is raging, and all across human-occupied space worlds are burning. Massive fleets struggle for dominance and kilometer-long war ships exchange thermonuclear barrages.
Battered in the early years of the war, the Western Alliance is resurgent. The brilliant Admiral Augustus Garret leads the Alliance fleet from victory to victory, taking the war to the very heart of the enemy empires. And on the ground, Colonel Erik Cain, hero of the Marine Corps, leads his crack troops again into combat, seeking the final battle.
But war is the province of more than soldiers in the line, and in the background, the secretive intelligence agencies of the despotic Superpowers plot and scheme, using their own soldiers as pawns in the great game for control of space.
The final battle will be fought in the reddish sands of a backwater world, where the rivalries of the Superpowers are about to become irrelevant, overshadowed by a staggering secret that has lain hidden in a remote cave for untold centuries.
All the Powers struggle for the ultimate victory, but at what cost?
The Cost of Victory is the second book in the Jay Allan’s bestselling Crimson Worlds series (over 800,000 sold) and the direct sequel to Marines.
The Crimson Worlds Series (Reading Order)
Book 1: Marines Book 2: The Cost of Victory Book 3: A Little Rebellion Book 4: The First Imperium Book 5: The Line Must Hold Book 6: To Hell’s Heart Book 7: The Shadow Legions Book 8: Even Legends Die Book 9: The Fall
Standalone, Can be Read at Any Point: Red Team Alpha (A Crimson Worlds Adventure)