A hard-hitting collection of the best fiction of Michael Z. Williamson,creator of the popular Freehold military SF saga.
It's a tough universe out there! Duty in the face of danger on a planetaryscale. Pride and competence in the face of idiotic clients who hate that thatthey need your services, and an enemy who wants to make your bad day even worse.These are stories of the warriors and civilians who get things done in extremesituations, whether it’s rescue from a ship broken in space and leakingair and radiation, hard choices by a brigade of mercenary swords in a world ofblood and magic, or scramble and response by troops in the Sandbox doing what ittakes to make it through another scorching, rocket-filled day.
