Patricio Carrera has been waging what amounts to a private world war to
bring to justice the murderers of his family; He's raised an army and
air force and used them. He's raised a fleet and he's about to use that.
He's suborned one republic and is about to undermine another. He's
tracked his enemies across half a world, breaking, in the process, any
notion of international law that stood in his way. Now he's deployed his
legions to Pashtia, penultimate hideout of the Salafi Ikhwan who have
made him what he has become. But with each step further from his home,
revenge seems no closer. And with each step he leaves behind him a
little of his dwindling humanity. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Yet the trail itself grows cold, as cold as the snow-capped, windswept
mountains of Pashtia. Only Carrera's hate still burns hot, and that's a
fire that is slowly consuming him.