Constable Mike Boone never expected his quiet morning ride to investigate rumors of dead livestock to take a sharp turn into a war. Confronted by plasma rifle totting aliens he suddenly finds himself in a fire fight -- out gunned and outnumbered.Until then his quiet world was a quiet, backwater were nothing ever happen, yet to the large hungry aliens a frontier planet without a military looks like an invitation to lunch. Desperate to find a way to resist Boone enlists the aid of an old soldier banished to this world for his part in a bloody stellar conflict. Though on opposite sides two...