The Galactics arrived with their battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being
exterminated under a barrage of hell burners, Earth joined a vast empire
that spanned the Milky Way. Our only worthwhile trade goods are our
infamous mercenary legions, elite troops we sell to the highest alien
bidder.
In the fourth book of the series, James McGill is up for promotion. Not
everyone is happy about that, and McGill must prove he's worth his
stripes. Deployed to a strange, alien planet outside the boundaries of
the Galactic Empire, he's caught up in warfare and political intrigue.
Earth expands, the Cephalopod Kingdom launches ships to stop us, and a
grand conspiracy emerges among the upper ranks of the Hegemony military.
In Machine World McGill faces an entirely new kind of alien life,
Galactic prosecution, and thousands of relentless squid troopers. He
lives and dies in the falling ashes of the empire, a man of unique honor
at the dawn of humanity's resurgence.
Machine World is a military science fiction novel by bestselling
author B. V. Larson.