Original Trade PaperbackA New Science Fiction Adventure Series by the Best-Selling Author of the Orphanage Seriesnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp At twenty-three Jazen Parker has completed his Legion hitch a heronbsp But in four months hell have a price on his headnbsp Worse hes lost his past and he cant find his futurenbsp Worst of all hes chosen to search for them on the deadliest planet known to mankindnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp When Jazen reluctantly hires on to a Trueborn Earthman tycoons safari to bag a deadly trophy the reluctant mercenary finds himself shipped out to Downgraded Earthlinke the outpost at the end of the universe known to everyone except its tourism bureau as Dead Endnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbspnbsp But the hunt goes terribly wrong and Jazen must survive a tough beautiful local guide who hates mercenaries an eleven ton beast that can crush main battle tanks with one claw tied behind its back and the return of a nightmare that has haunted Jazen since birth Then Jazen learns that the stakes are not merely his own life but the fate of an entire alien race Buettner goes well beyond military science fiction he understands living as a soldierthe boredom punctuated by terror the constant anxiety and self-doubt the random chaos that battle always is and the emotional glue that holds together people who may have nothing in common except absolute responsibility for one anothers lives Joe Haldeman Hugo and Nebula Award-winning authorOnce in a while a contemporary author penetrates to the heart of Heinleins vision to replicate the masters effects One such book is Robert Buettners Orphanage The Washington PostEntertaining Buettner shows the Heinlein touch Denver Post.
