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Furnace (Hunter-Killer #1)

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Reads 43,816
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Parts 40
Time 9h 17m

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Life on Rychter would be hard enough for most people - a hothouse of scorching deserts, violent dust storms and volcanic eruptions, it is a place that breeds survivors. But the biggest danger for the humans unfortunate enough to live there are the planet's original owners. For decades Rychter's colonists have lived in state of perpetual war.

For Ryke Vannigan, a teenager with a score to settle, that war is his chance at payback. When he and his classmates are conscripted into Rychter's military forces, he joins the elite ranks of the Hunter-Killer Corps. 

Piloting a fifteen ton war machine and harbouring a thirst for revenge, Ryke is about to write his own bloody chapter in Rychter's history, and change the war forever.

IMAGINARIA AWARDS WINNER: SCI FI CATEGORY
IMAGINARIA MINI-CATEGORY WINNER: BEST BATTLE

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