About the Book
Raj Whitehall was a young noble of the Civil Governement, the last
remnant of galactic civilization on the planet Bellview. Possessed of
an unparalleled strategic genius, Raj dreamed of leading his people's
armies to victory agaimst the barbarians who threathened to engulf
them.
Yet it was not exterior enemies who were Raj's greatest
challenge, but the Civil Governement itself. Its bureaucrats had become
corrupt extortionists. The ranks of its armies were filled with
barbarians mercenaries ready to turn on the paymasters they despised.
Those at the highest levels sank their knives into each other's backs
even as the barbarians closed in. And the Governor himself, the man to
whom Raj has sworn and given absolute loyalty, nourished a paranoid
envy and mistrust that grew with every victory Raj won...
Luckily
for Bellview, Raj had a hidden asset beyond the worship of his troops
and his own genius for war. Raj was possessed of – or possessed by – a
"guardian angel" that guided him inexorably toward the goal of
planetary dominion. But could even a battle computer of the Galactic
Age be enough to counter the fury of Raj's enemies... and the
treachery of his "friends"?
