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The Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier. He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war. Tomas Neumann sought escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother, and a mentor to replace his long-dead father. "Taking the shilling"-enlisting in the Confederated Worlds military-promised both. But despite the soldier's skills implanted in his brain, combat still threatened to destroy him, in body and in spirit. Grieving for lost comrades, demoralized by a spiral of atrocities, could Tomas learn what he needed to survive, before facing his war's ultimate challenge?…mehr

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The Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier. He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war. Tomas Neumann sought escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother, and a mentor to replace his long-dead father. "Taking the shilling"-enlisting in the Confederated Worlds military-promised both. But despite the soldier's skills implanted in his brain, combat still threatened to destroy him, in body and in spirit. Grieving for lost comrades, demoralized by a spiral of atrocities, could Tomas learn what he needed to survive, before facing his war's ultimate challenge?
Autorenporträt
Raymund Eich is a science fiction and fantasy writer whose middleAmerican upbringing is a launchpad for journeys to the ends of theuniverse. His most popular works are military science fiction seriesThe Confederated Worlds (novels Take theShilling, Operation Iago, and A Bodyguard ofLies) and the Stone Chalmers series of sciencefiction espionage adventures (novels The Progress of Mankind,The Greater Glory of God, To All High EmpriseConsecrated, and In Public Convocation Assembled). He hasabout ten other published novels and over twenty published shortstories. His works are available worldwide in ebook, trade paperback,and audiobook editions. Raymund lives in Houston with his family. His website ishttp://raymundeich.com.