With the hope of reuniting the renegade St. Ives
Compact with his own Capellan Federation, Chancellor Sun-Tzu
Liao has gone to war for control of the Compact. But as months
of battle turn to years of war, the growing list of the dead
has begun to darken his brightest dream. And as doubts fill the
Chancellor's mind, those same dark thoughts haunt the minds of
the Compact and Capellan soldiers fighting on the front lines.
With his dream slipping through his fingers, Sun-Tzu makes a
last desperate gamble that will either win the day...or doom
him forever.