Soldier, Ask Not

Soldier, ask not... and they never did. They were black-clad mercenaries, responsible only to their employer and their God. They coldly executed Tam Olyn's brother-in-law before his eyes.

Olyn's quest for vengeance took him across half of the civilized worlds – to far Cassida, New Earth, bustling Friedland; to the political planet St. Marie – and then back to Old Earth again.

He met men of all the splinter groups into which Mankind had evolved and he used them to further his ends – until Padma the Exotic, and Lisa the Mystic taught him how to use his special powers – and the enormous knowledge of the Final Encyclopedia...