From the Hugo Award­­-winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war.

They said the war would turn us into light.

The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…different. Grunts in the corporate corps get broken into light, travelling from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief − no matter what happens during combat.

Dietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops which don’t sync up with the platoon’s. And the bad drops tell a story of war that’s not what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think it is.

Is Dietz really experiencing the war differently, or is it combat madness? Trying to survive with sanity intact, Dietz is ready to become a hero − or maybe even a villain. In war it’s hard to tell the difference.

“This is the real thing.” JAMES SA COREY, author of The Expanse series

“Rereads will be both necessary and desirable.” KIKUS, starred review

“A smart, brutal, and structurally sophisticated military science fiction tale with a time travel twist.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review