About the book: 2008 / Mercenaries have been fighting for ringing gold since this world stood...Have times changed? Humanity has settled on hundreds of planets? Sounding gold Have credit cards been replaced? But nothing else has changed for the “soldiers of fortune.” And now, when a war is brewing in the split Galactic Federation between the Dominion inhabited by “normal” people and the Burnt Zone, where mutant briids live, the time has come for mercenaries again. Mercenaries, the best of of which - the dashing squad of Captain Jack Colley, sentenced to death on half of the civilized planets and declared a hero on the rest of the planets...Jack Colley is not looking for either the right or the wrong side. He and his guys will fight for whoever offers the most!