Battle is brutal. Colonel Wes Stauer gets it. He must. He was once among war’s most brutal practitioners-not to mention one of its most effective and least bloody. Brutal yes; stupid no. Now, not merely must Stauer control his crack outfit of former comrades and accomplish yet another wonder mission, he must also harness and immediate the brute within himself-a beast he will need to be able to destroy an intelligent enemy who’s as implacable as Stauer himself. Okay, nearly as implacable. You will see war. And you will see warriors like Wes Stauer who’ve the know-how and, once set in motion, the unstoppable professional drive, to see the bad guys to their graves and kill every last earthly piece of their awful legacies.