West of Honor
By Jerry Pournelle.
Description
"Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold." (Niccolò Machiavelli) Recent Academy graduate Lieutenant Hal Slater is traveling first class to a cushy first assignment when he is suddenly preempted into a new detachment headed for a wild frontier world. Captain John Christian Falkenberg is forming a new unit from conscripts, guard house scrapings, and the remnants of decimated units, and has the authority to scoop up junior officers wherever he can find them. Hal is caught in that scoop. Falkenberg and three companies of CoDominium Line Ma...
ISBN(s)
0671653474, 9780671653477