THE CLEAN BLADE. PERFECTION IS THE ULTIMATE PREDATOR.
The war in the Balkans has turned hostile to human life. Terrain lies. Coordinates kill. Mountains enforce a colder kind of order.
Captain Fitzwilliam leads what remains of a shattered partisan unit towards the source - the Nexus, an ancient structure buried in the rock, correcting reality by erasing imperfection one life at a time.
Hunting them is Sebastian Faulkner - Commander of the forces of absolute consistency. Immaculate. Unrelenting. Certain that human suffering is nothing more than a flaw to be removed.
Cut off, low on ammunition, and running out of time, Fitzwilliam abandons doctrine and discipline. With a disgraced scientist, a dead comrade who refuses to stay silent, and a weapon forged from human grief, he prepares a last, dirty stand against an enemy that does not miss.
Straight lines mean death. Only the broken survive.
CAN HUMAN NOISE DEFEAT THE CALCULUS OF HELL?