The War Machine

Description

How do you handle semi-intelligent drops of what appears to be parasitic solder? Add to that a helmet composed of several of these creatures that is intelligent and evil. Take a former intelligence officer, steal his nobel wife then reward him with the rank of Captain and introduce him to the governments special investigations force who will in turn assign him to solving the mystery of the threat aimed at all intelligent life in the pact. Another well written story by master author David Drake.