A crisis has arisen. On their first mission as a team, Pretorius and his
Dead Enders kidnapped the real General Michkag and substituted a clone
who had been raised and trained in the Democracy. But now they find that
the clone likes being the most powerful man in the hundred-world
Traanskei Coalititon--and having been raised on Earth, he knows how
humans think and react. This becomes a many-layered problem for
Pretorius and what is left of his Dead Enders. As the only humans on a
totally militarized alien world, they must first find where the
best-guarded member of the enemy's military - Michkag - is hiding and
how many aliens, or regiments, or divisions, are guarding him, and then
they must find a way past all his lines of defense to kill or capture
him.