Overview
Delta Force versus dragons. The hunt is on—and this time, the quarry is one of their own.
Fresh from their brutal assault on the giants, the operators of Bravo Team hit the coastal town of Massa Rinovata hunting the sorcerer Devereaux and the captured flight crewman he dragged into the shadows. Street by street they close the net with bribery, trickery, and hard-earned special operations tradecraft. But the man they came to recover is already changing into something no longer entirely human—and the Ruin never lets go of what it claims.
Meanwhile, those who would wake the dragons finally have sacrifice enough to raise the first terrible wyrm.
The trail leads deep into the Italian Alps, to the newly woken red—a hatchling no one can afford to let mature, least of all the towering wolf-like demi-humans who rule the territory and already have their hands full with real werewolves and vampires pouring out of the northern Marches. They will not suffer a dragon to rise on their watch. Together, Bravo Team and their new allies assault a mountain fortress of Cloud Giants in a desperate bid to put the hatchling down before it comes into its full, terrible power.
Yet the Ruin changes everyone it touches. Some of Bravo Team are already shifting in mindset, convinced that a bronze-age fight demands bronze-age methods… the first steps down a spiral into the dark.
Those Who Dare is Book 2 in the Delta Kings series—a thrilling, boots-on-the-ground military fantasy set in the world of Jason Anspach and Nick Cole’s Forgotten Ruin, where the tip of the spear collides with sword and sorcery. Fans of Forgotten Ruin and SGT. THOR: this is your next deployment.
Author Bio
Jason Anspach is the Dragon Award–winning, Associated Press best-selling co-creator of Galaxy's Edge and Forgotten Ruin, and author of the Wayward Galaxy series. His military science fiction and space opera have sold millions of copies and built a devoted international readership across multiple long-running series — a deep, evergreen backlist with proven repeat-purchase appeal, anchored by fast-paced, character-driven adventure that blends gritty combat with humor. His audio performance is equally strong, including the Audible Original Forget Nothing, which reached the national Audible fiction best-seller list. Jason lives in Washington State with his wife, their seven children, and the family border collie.
Nick Cole is a former soldier turned two-time Dragon Award–winning author and co-creator of Galaxy's Edge. CTRL ALT Revolt! won the 2016 Dragon Award for Best Apocalyptic Novel; The Savage Wars, co-written with Anspach, won the 2018 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction; and his breakout post-apocalyptic novel The Old Man and the Wasteland reached #1 in Science Fiction as an Amazon best seller. His catalog commands reliable cross-series readership spanning military SF, post-apocalyptic, and space-opera audiences. A working actor, Nick lives in Southern California.
Together, Anspach and Cole have built the Forgotten Ruin universe into WarGate Books' flagship military fantasy property — nine mainline novels plus the hit SGT. THOR spinoff series, with consistently strong audiobook sell-through. Delta Kings is the newest series set in that world, sending a troop of Delta Force operators into the Ruin — and its readership has already proven it follows these authors from series to series.
