When Brook Adams, a colonist farmer trained to survive in a hostile alien jungle, was drafted into the space infantry, he could express his knowledge of his destination in only three short phrases: “It’s very far away,” “There’s a lot of tourism there,” “ This is a planet with a good climate and rare anomalous phenomena.” In just a few weeks, Brook learned a lot about his place of service. Faced with a choice - to remain himself or turn into a mindless death machine, he desperately fights for life along with a handful of losers thrown into the crucible of someone else's war...