To maintain the integrity of their reputation as the galaxy's mercenary elite, the soldiers of the barren world of Metzada adhere to a rigid code of loyalty and honor reminiscent of their Jewish-Israeli ancestors. When a veteran soldier apparently betrays the code, it becomes the ongoing task of ...
The crudest, most ruthless officer in the Thousand World Contact Service, Major Alonzo Norfeldt--alias the Dutchman--finds himself pitted against the most cunning and deadly of intergalactic aliens . . . while partnered with an idiotic greenhorn.