Requiem of Flesh: The Siege of Lebanon

Jeremiah Lively is the corporation's greatest hero. On a poisoned, starving Earth, he pilots fortress walkers through nightmare battlefields while the cameras roll. But the feeds never show the tremors in his hands. The hidden bottle. The surveillance network watching from inside his own walls. The red light blinking on every hidden camera as his empire measures him for obsolescence. You've seen the propaganda. Now Ceramicor is launching its final campaign to reclaim the wastes and reach the stars, and the brand of heroism sold to the public is cracking under the weight of reality. Every night brings fresh horrors to the front lines. Mutant armies rise from the ruins. Religious zealots march in mechanized warmachines. By morning, entire districts have gone dark. Four characters hold the fate of a dying city in their hands: a legendary pilot drowning his century of guilt, a cyborg veteran whose augments are eating his mind, a publicist bound by contract to manage a hero's image while her own heart breaks, and a rookie soldier watching his friends die one by one. This is military science fiction with teeth. A cyberpunk epic set in a night city where your body is property, your loyalty is a line item, and your future belongs to whoever controls the broadcast. Because the real monsters never lived outside the walls. For readers who love: Brutal mech and fortress walker combat Military science fiction and desperate last stands Cyberpunk body horror and augmentation Corporate dystopias and manufactured heroes Mutants, cyborgs, and mechanized religious orders Psychological decline and cyberpsychosis Propaganda, surveillance, and corporate control Morally gray characters and divided loyalties Dying Earth and post-apocalyptic settings Dark space opera with humanity fighting for the stars Faith, guilt, sacrifice, and the cost of survival Multi-POV stories where no one is guaranteed to survive