A leading voice in military SF, best-selling author John Ringo groups with real-life rocket scientist Travis S. Taylor for an explosive admittance from their Searching Glass series. Recovering from their first mission, the team from the Vorpal Blade-humankind’s 1st interstellar craft-is called into emergency actions when an alliance gate colony is usually attacked. Who was simply the lethal alien enemy? What exactly happened in the colony? And dare the Vorpal Blade’s battle-weary misfits participate a potentially excellent force?