Mercenaries in protective armor under the skies of alien planets tell anecdotes and incidents from their combat past... Giant crabs in a fog-shrouded forest whisper in women's voices... The “Desert Lord”, similar to a giant praying mantis, crawls out of its sandy hole. .. The smell of blood, sweat and gunpowder, the deathly glow of laser beams - everything that a lover of real military science fiction needs is in this novel.