Exodus: The Orion War

Jan Wysocki must get Madjenik Company out of the ash lands into besieged Torun City. The odds are all against it. A massive ring of heavily armed defenders encircles the whole city. He's going to need a lot of help. Can he contact the garrison and coordinate his attack? Once inside the city he will have to finally face Zofia as well as his own failures as a man and a commander.Then he must decide where to go next. Should the company stay and fight the last battle at the berm, or should Jan lead it off world on the Exodus fleet that's fleeing Krevan space to find sanctuary and fight on from bases in the neutral Calmar Union?Stay and die or live and resist from long and uncertain exile? He's not sure what to do. Neither is Madjenik, which may mutiny if he refuses to go back out to fight along the berm wall. He has a third decision to make. He's offered an extraordinary secret mission by General Amiya Constance, the garrison commander.Can he do it? Will he do it? Will he agree to leave his home to a cruel enemy? Is he about to be exposed as a fraud or will he fit the legend of the 'Ghost of the Woods'? Is he the one to lead a long and brutal war of resistance from exile?SECOND EDITION