(W) Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston (A) Giancarlo Caracuzzo (CA) Giuseppe Camuncoli. With 44 million people killed by the toxic gas the alien Formics unleashed in China* the only hope of a counter-agent lies with Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police safely retrieving a sample. Meanwhile* young asteroid miner Victor Delgado has snuck aboard the Formic mothership in hopes of taking it down alone and boy is he is for a big disappointment. Meanwhile* Captain O'Toole and his unit take on the Formic Death Squads* but the humans are outnumbered a hundred to one! Besieged on all sides* the Formics fight to the bitter end but as the Hegemon of Earth is revealed* is it truly the end after all? Collecting FORMIC WARS: SILENT STRIKE #1-5.