In the near future, Earth has been conquered by a race of alien machines known as the Mek, and an entire generation has grown up under their brutal rule.
When Dakota Bregman, a rebellious young woman imprisoned in a Mek labor camp stumbles across a mysterious map that may hold the secret to humanity's liberation, she embarks on a dangerous and grueling odyssey across an alien-occupied American that leads her to an amazing discovery -- a long-lost prototype war machine known as a Gundog. Created by the last defenders of earth as a weapon of last resort, it has lain dormant for twenty years, hidden away, waiting for someone to wake it up.Now Dakota must confront a legacy she never knew she had, facing down impossible odds and an overwhelmingly superior enemy, in the hope of sparking a new flame of human resistance...
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