* THE CLASSIC MILITARY NOVELLA BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHILDREN OF TIME SERIES *'Brutal, inhuman, and strangely awe-inspiring' - LOCUS MAGAZINE'Engaging, very well-written, and offers new twists on popular tropes' - CIVILIAN READER'Bleak, but also strangely alluring, in an imposing, terrifying kind of way' - BIBLIOSANCTUM SCIONS HAVE NO LIMITS. SCIONS DO NOT DIE. AND SCIONS DO NOT DISAPPEAR.Sergeant Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad - the lethal battle suits that make the Scions masters of war - but something has gone catastrophically wrong.Now Regan and his men, ill-equipped and demoralised, must go behind enemy lines, find the missing Scion, and uncover how his suit failed. Is there a new Ironclad-killer out there? And how are common soldiers lacking the protection afforded the rich supposed to survive the battlefield of tomorrow?