After completing her officer training, Lieutenant Tachikoma faces a new challenge. Now she leads mankind's first mission to another world.

Her orders. Retrieve lost experimental robot scouts. Keep her team safe from the indigenous alien mega-fauna.

But when the mission becomes a first contact scenario, the stakes rise.

The Gate Walker universe series explores what happens when mankind starts to visit alien planets, in "Strike Dog" Tachikoma finds herself facing jeopardy and death using her combat armor, in this thrilling military SF roller-coaster ride.