Description: Zack Decker's life was in shambles. The former Marine Sergeant, whose temper was as legendary as his fighting skills, had been offered early retirement as an alternative to a court martial, and he knew he had enough enemies that a military judge would have sent him to a penal battalion. But the Corps had been his entire life. With a wife who left him long ago, no job, no friends and no future, he had crawled into a bottle and stayed there, moving from planet to planet, looking for some reason to continue living. Until, that is, he wandered into a bar owned by an old Marine buddy who offered to help. On the run after accidentally killing a corrupt policeman, and nowhere to hide, he accepted the proposition. Decker would have done better to head for the hills, or surrender to the cops, but old buddies could be persuasive and he quickly found himself signing on to a freighter of dubious ownership, with a dubious crew, doing things for his new employer that tested the old saying 'Once a Marine, always a Marine.' Unfortunately, curiosity was Decker's other major failing and in short order he was on the run, hunted by a shadowy government organisation, and in possession of a secret that could destroy the Commonwealth. It was a secret to die for, and the people on his trail wanted to make sure he did. Too bad they forgot that he could still fight like one of the Few...

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