Mild-mannered and scholarly Cletus Graeme, a light colonel on assignment with the Allied forces, arrives on Bakhalla, where he commands a small force of Dorsai, soldiers of fortune who sell their lives in foreign wars to feed their families back home, and Graeme sees an opportunity to test his theories on them. Reprint.

A Hugo Award-winning novel of destiny and revenge. On the sixteen colonized worlds, mankind had changed: men of War on the Dorsai worlds, men of Faith on the Friendly worlds. Jamethon Black, a Friendly, is a true soldier, and a true man of faith. Now he must face a deadly enemy—an enemy whose defeat will forever separate him from the only woman he has ever loved.

aka The Genetic General Throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the art of war has made them the most valuable mercenaries in the known universe. Donal Graeme is Dorsai, taller and harder than any ordinary man. But he is different as well, with talents that maze even his fellow Dorsai. And once he ventures out into the stars, the future will never be the same.