The Iron Stroke

In a world where the waterways are forged from a violent, fluid-metallic substance, survival is a matter of perfect synchronization. A team of weary, veteran elite soldiers is summoned back from rest to face the brutal "Off-Season" trials-a dangerous race across a river network that responds to human physical effort. Under the Law of Fluid Drag, the river liquifies into a friction-free surface only when the entire team strokes at the exact same microsecond.

If even one rower falters, the riv...