

The hard-fought cease-fire cannot last, even on Hall, and when every faction is embittered and fueled by fervor, peace has no chance at all. The Tigers want nothing of this battle, but war rages across the Inner Sphere. They believe the Tigers’ employer to be league with the Word of Blake, a shadowy interstellar organization that worships technology, and which has been building its own empire among the worlds around Terra. More mercenaries, hired by the Allied Mercenary Command itself, land on Hall. They settle afterward in for a needed period of rebuilding, and a few months’ peace before moving on to the next contract. Hired to assist in the bitter, bloody fighting on the planet Hall, they quickly earn a decisive victory for their employer. For Ezra Payne and the Stealthy Tiger mercenaries, professionalism is everything.
