On the sixteen colonized worlds, mankind had changed, evolved into
something that was slightly more than human...and slightly less. Men of
War on the Dorsai worlds, men of Faith on the Friendly Worlds of Harmony
and Association, men of Science, the Exotics of Kultis and Mara, and the
Splinter cultures which had produced even stranger new talents. Those
who knew said it was the Dorsai who supplied soldiers to the sixteen
worlds. The Friendlies supplied cannon fodder, common soldiers who could
be relied on to obey orders at all times. But even cannon fodder can
sometimes produce genius. Jamethon Black is a true soldier, and a true
man of faith. Now he must face a deadly enemy--an enemy whose defeat
will forever separate Black from the only woman he has ever loved.