Relics of the Fallen (The Wormwood Archive) - Softcover

Nethery, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1971507741 ISBN 13: 9781971507743

Publisher: Raconteur Press, 2025

Synopsis

He knows what he saw in Iraq. The Army told him he didn't.

Staff Sergeant Dan Kelly, an Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician, watched a strange machine in an insurgent weapons cache open a hole in the air and consume the two soldiers he was leading. The official record calls it a mortar strike. The Defense Intelligence Agency calls it closed.

Eight years later, weeks from retirement, Dan is recruited into a program that has been operating quietly for more than a century: a Texas compound whose teams locate, render safe, and study artifacts produced by no civilization in recorded history.

• Weapons that bend gravity and flatten steel
• Devices that rewrite the languages their victims speak
• Machines that seem to dream, and sing to one another

Dan's new team of former operators, scientists, and bomb technicians is already under attack by someone who knows their missions before they launch, and who has been weaponizing these relics for years. The trail leads back to a name from Dan's last war.

Relics of the Fallen is fast, hard-edged military science fiction with cosmic-horror strangeness, a veteran's eye for the details, and a hero whose best weapon may be his willingness to listen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Raconteur Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1971507741
• ISBN 13: 9781971507743
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308