BETRAYAL ON THE RED PLANET

They were prisoners, exiles, pawns of a corrupt government. Now they are Dr. Rachel Dycek's adin: surgically transformed beimgs who can survive new lives on the surface of Mars
But they are still exiles, unable to ever again breath Earth's air ...
And they are still pawns.
For the adin exist to terraform Mars for human colonists - not for themselves. Creating a new Earth, they will destroy their own world; their success will kill them. Desperate, adin leader Boris Tiban launches a suicide campaign to destroy the Mars Project, knowing his people will perish in his glorious, doomed orgy of mayhem.
Unless embattled, bitter Rachel Dycek can find a miracle to save both the Mars Project - and the race she created

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NIGHT STRIKE

Boris raised his titanium spear in one hand and let out an ululating cry that sounded high-pitched and eerie in the empty, frigid night. Beside him, Nikolas pulled out his scrap-metal scimitar. A determined grin spread across his skull-like face.
Never had any animal made a mournful nighttime cry on the surface of Mars. The miserable people huddling inside the pumping station shelter heard it and felt true terror.
Boris ran to the vee of thin metal pipelines that joined at the pumping station. He raised his staff and plunged the sharp point into the intersection, twisting it like a crowbar. Rushing water burst through the crack and volatilized. The cold steam made a razor-sharp screaming noise as it squirted outward. Water sprayed on Boris' deadened skin, flashing into a sheath of ice. He could feel cold seeping into his bones.
Wielding his scimitar like a Cossack pirate, Nikolas crashed through the front door of the shelter.