The Life and Times of Gunnery Sergeant Jackson Mason: Darkness, Light, and Fire

By Mark Jordan

Book Overview

The war is over. The Republic of New Terra is free. Jackson Mason should be able to rest.

He won't.

Old enemies who couldn't defeat him on the battlefield have turned to assassination and galactic courts. Beyond the borders of the known galaxy, an ancient and ravenous menace has taken notice of this fragile new alliance of former enemies.

The Darkness does not negotiate. It doesn't retreat. It does not mourn its dead. Fielding unending fleets of warships, it keeps coming. Conquest, consumption and genocide is its simple doctrine. They are like the army ants of the galaxy - and they are moving toward the Galactic Alliance worlds.

The Assaurians encountered the Darkness once before, more than a thousand years ago in their deep explorations. A menace that frightened them so much that they built something to stop it. Then locked it away because the power of this new weapon frightened them more.

And standing between the coming Darkness and the Alliance-a battle-hardened Admiral who stumbles into a chance at a new life. A new life with the most extraordinary being he has ever encountered.

An ancient and endless enemy. An ancient and unstoppable weapon. A clash of titans is coming. The galactic community that Mason helped forge from the wreckage of a war of expansionist corruption and lies is in the Darkness's path. The new galactic community must find a way to stand together against something that cannot be reasoned with, bribed, or stopped by any single fleet.

Darkness, Light, and Fire is the second book in The Life and Times of Gunnery Sergeant Jackson Mason - military science fiction of rare emotional depth.

Best experienced after Book One: The Quest for Freedom.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H559DCQZ
• ISBN13: 9798995271956
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Mark Jordan Publishing
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"