Lance Lawthorn survived the program that was supposed to turn enhanced humans into weapons.
Now USEC is sending him into the field for real.
Their first major deployment drops Lance into a disaster zone where entire towns have been torn apart, civilians are trapped, and the creatures hunting them are smarter than anyone expected. What starts as a rescue mission quickly turns into proof that the world is changing faster than humanity can keep up.
Lance comes back injured, unstable, and more powerful than ever. As his abilities keep evolving, USEC pulls him deeper into the part of the program most soldiers never the experiments, the fail-safes, and the plan for what happens if enhanced people become too dangerous to control.
The enemy is evolving. The military is preparing for the worst. And Lance is running out of room to pretend he is still just a man trying to survive.
It starts with an exciting battle for the first third, then trails off to a "meh" conspiracy where not much story progression happens for most of the rest of the book and culminates in an exciting and tense standoff. The middle of the book pushes this down to a three star, while the start and the finish elevate the book back to a four star. Oh, and there are 4, not 5.