A Wolf Pup, stolen at a young age to feed the ageless flames of war… An Aged Mother, fighting for her simpler glory days as technology outraces her… An Innocent Father, manipulated by family and genetics into a never-ending conflict… The Vantel family are human beings like any other, gifted though they may be, who wish for nothing more but to spend their days together in pursuit of life, liberty, happiness and The American Dream. They are different; Adrian is an Albino with violent tendencies thanks to government experimentation referred to in hushed whispers only as Project Artemis. Sylvia is a cancer-stricken mother forced into an early retirement from an exciting career in the Green Berets. Cato has isolated himself from his patriarchal position through lies and secrets that may be older than time itself. Quirks aside, none of them were ready for the trials that life prepared for them. The Wolf Pup is whisked away to Afghanistan, he must become a child soldier and become the hunter his creators deemed him to be. The Fox Mother is recruited for an experimental test project that may save her life, she is forced into a trial that challenges who she was and what she has become. The Bat Father is called to confront the biological secrets that maintain the world when he discovers a Pandora box of epic proportions, a virus that threatens every living being that possess a drop of blood. Now Child, Mother and Father must engage in the fight of their lives as they are thrust into their respective conflicts, with everything on the line and more than each other to lose. Learn to view the world from a whole new perspective in A. J. Strife’s entry point to his thrilling series, The Mercenary’s Salvation as he captures the heart of human suffering and triumph in a parallel world created to analyze the basic human struggle to survive against all foes, from biological to technological manipulation to the challenges faced by the young and old, where nobody is spared and everyone has a cause worth dying for in an epic struggle that spans the ages. Enter into A World of Strife, a doppelganger Earth with much to illuminate about our very own.