Mutineer

In a future where humanity has mechanized war itself, Trooper Lane is the ultimate weapon: conditioned, augmented, and disposable. After a brutal campaign in Chi, he returns to find his own city has become a prison. What begins as a routine hostage situation a Martian ambassador named Gerri Lane becomes something far more dangerous: a mutiny against the system that turned him into a killer. Shea writes with sharp, taut prose, building tension through a single desperate night as Lane discovers that human emotion the very thing his commanders tried to erase may be the only force unpredictable enough to shatter their control. This is a compact, propulsive story about one soldier refusing to be a tool anymore. For readers who love early dystopian fiction and anyone who's ever wondered what remains of the self when the uniform becomes all you are.