Sten had fully expected to die inside a blaze of glory, acquiring his Emperor’s greatest foe with him. Rather he was a slave laborer in a P.O.W. camp deep in the center of enemy territory. But sitting out the action had by no means been Sten’s design. And now that the war was building to a climax, the Eternal Emperor required him more than ever. Not the toughest prison in the known world can keep Sten from his mission .