Herokiller 2

In 2045, the Crucible is going global. The televised gladiator tournament is celebrating its tenth anniversary, the wounds of the bombing of the Vegas Colosseum all but healed. Mark Wei, the ex-CIA operative and Year One winner, hasn’t been seen in the decade since the attack. Cameron Crayton, the media mogul running the tournament, has rebuilt, and crowned eight new winners since. Now he’s expanding his search in a sprawling, worldwide tournament, the Crucible stretching beyond the borders of the US for the first time.

Violet is the pride of Project Embryo, China’s covert ops program to create sleeper agents by training killers from birth. Awaiting her first infiltration mission in the US after turning eighteen, she’s stunned when Commander Zhou sends her to fight in Crayton’s new tournament. The goal? To reclaim some measure of glory for a fractured China after America tore it apart in the second Cold War. Win the tournament and become a symbol of a nation reborn.

But to claim victory, Violet will have to make her way through giants, monsters and murderers. Russian mobsters, South African warlords, fanatical American cult leaders. And the third sister of a storied Crucible family who has been fighting since Year One. Out of the arena, she’s hearing whispers about Mark Wei, and his story seems to haunt her in ways she doesn’t fully understand. Violet must discover the truth about her mission, and herself.


Genre: Science Fiction