Germline (n.) the genetic material contained in a cellular lineage which can be passed to the next generation. <em>Also</em>: secret military program to develop genetically engineered super-soldiers (<i>slang</i>).<br><br>War is Oscar Wendell's ticket to greatness. A reporter for <i >The Stars and Stripes</i>, he has the only one way pass to the front lines of a brutal war over natural resources buried underneath the icy, mineral rich mountains of Kazakhstan.<br><br>But war is nothing like he expected. Heavily armored soldiers battle genetically engineered troops hundreds of meters below the surface. The genetics-the germline soldiers-are the key to winning this war, but some inventions can't be un-done. Some technologies can't be put back in the box.<br><br>Kaz will change everything, not least Oscar himself. Hooked on a dangerous cocktail of adrenaline and drugs, Oscar doesn't find the war, the war finds him.