Well-reviewed fantasist Susan Shwartz returns to her science fiction roots with a riveting and hard SF novel of honour and its loss, and the exploration of what it means to be a true hero. A professional soldier whose time had passed, Jim, is stationed as security for a commercial venture critical to humanity's continued survival. Now he's just another "tin soldier", a prop for the military to look good to war-weary civilians. But he's never stopped caring about those who scorn him and the ideals to which he still clings. That caring is tested when he is thrust into a scandal not of his making and chooses to carry the burden of guilt no matter what. Because of his own pride...possibly the one thing he has left. That, and a promise of a second chance.
- ISBN13 9780812579123
- Publish Date 15 April 2002 (first published 11 August 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 464
- Language English