It's obvious that Cletus Graeme--limping, mild-mannered
scholarly--doesn't belong on a battle field, but instead at a desk
working on his fourth book on battle strategy and tactics. But Bakhalla
has more battlefields than libraries, and Graeme sees his small force of
Dorsai--soldiers of fortune--as the perfect opportunity to test his
theories. But if his theories or his belief in the Dorsai lead him
astray, he's a dead man.