Defiant Agents (Version 2)

The Cold War has gone interplanetary, and the race to claim the planet Topaz has already begun. Travis Fox volunteered for Operation Cochise, a secret mission to establish a Western foothold among the stars before the Reds can claim the territory. But when Travis drags himself from the wreckage of their ship, he carries a terrible burden: the Redax machine has stripped away his modern consciousness, returning him to something older, something ancestral. Now he and his fellow Apache agents must fight not only to survive on an alien world, but to reclaim the minds they once had. The Reds already encamp beyond the mountains, their barbaric forces controlled by masters who will stop at nothing. And in a valley of eternal mist, ancient towers hold a secret that could spell destruction for both worlds. This is science fiction at its most inventive: a Cold War thriller wrapped in a psychological odyssey, where the deepest battle is fought within.