The year is 1868 and Japan is about to erupt in the Boshin War. In the third installment of the GRAYBACK series, Bertram Tambling, former sharpshooter from Virginia, is at the end of his two year contract in Kyoto. Faced with uncertainty as to his future path, he decides to accept an officer's commission from the emperor who has decided to rebel against the Shogun. However, Bertram soon discovers he may be in over his head. While he excels as a commander on the battlefield, he is far from prepared to battle in the field of politics. Right and wrong become difficult to decipher, and when he...

Bertram Tambling, an expatriate from the former Confederacy, is now a veteran of two wars. Having recently survived the failure of the only republic ever attempted in Japan, he has sworn off serving any nation again. Further disillusioned by the industrialization and imperialism transforming the world around him, he turns his back on his code of honor. With a captured warship in his possession, and a misfit crew under his command, he embarks on a journey that has him sailing from one exotic port to the next. Eventually, he comes to France, which in the spring of 1870 is on the brink of war....