9781848560864. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Mass-market paperback. Language: English. Pages: 320. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 320 p. Terminator Salvation. In Terminator: Salvation the highly anticipated new installment of the Terminator movie franchise set in post-apocalyptic 2018 Christian Bale stars as John Connor the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. From The Ashes written by Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn is the official prequel novel to the high-octane new movie revealing the full story leading up to the movie s events. In post-Judgment Day LA two lost kids named Kyle and Star keep watch for Terminators; a jaded Marine struggles to keep his rag-tag community together in the face of unrelenting danger; and John and Kate Connor assemble their Resistance team for a brutal assault on a deadly enemy. This is the story you must read before the brand-new movie hits theatres!