Book I of Janissaries.  Some days it just didn’t pay to be a soldier. Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission –  and now, cornered by Russian-armed Cubans, Galloway knows that his American mercenaries have little hope of surviving.  If they fight back they will be annihilated and if they surrender, a mock trial will be followed by certain death. And theyve been ruthlessly abandoned by faceless CIA higher-ups pulling the plug on the operation. They’re cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their Cuban “advisors” rapidly closing in. And then the alien spaceship landed…The mercenaries are offered a deal, travel to the stars, to a primitive planet, and fight the enemies of the aliens. Intrigue, danger, and death await. Cover art by Peter  Jones.