As the climate changes and summers burn the land and winters freeze the seas, great empires wage war for control of the last of earth resources. But these wars are not fought by men. Huge armies of hybrid creatures do humans bidding. When Blake Quinn dies of an incurable disease and his body is frozen in cryostasis, he never realizes he will be brought back to life fifty years after his death. But it's a very different world he wakes up to. Given no choice, he is forced into a dangerous mission in this strange new world.