A seasoned military official uncovers a deadly conspiracy on the distant, war-torn world…

War heroes aren’t usually called away of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches from the galaxy for the routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from a vintage and effective friend, he understands it’s something big-and he’s not being told the whole story. A high councilor’s son has gone MIA out of Cappa Foundation, the space train station orbiting a battle-ravaged globe. The youthful lieutenant have been wounded and evacuated-but there’s no record of him having ever attained hospital command.

The colonel quickly finds Cappa Bottom to be a labyrinth of deceased ends and sabotage: the hospital commander stonewalls him, the Special Ops leader won’t come off the earth, witnesses go missing, radar data disappears, and that’s before he encounters the alien enemy. Butler does not have any choice but to drop down onto a hostile planet-because someone is using the war zone like a cover. The answers are there-Butler simply must make it back alive…