A savage crime in the arid wilderness of Gateway leaves a newlywed couple broken and innocents murdered. The jihadists who perpetrate it soon discover they have chosen the wrong victim, for the crime causes Colonel Benjamin Martin to bring his Black Lions to Gateway to fight on the government's behalf. But who is the greater enemy, the fanatics who seek to hurl Gateway into anarchy, or the reactionaries who cling tenaciously to power with every brutal means at their disposal? As he strives to win the war, Martin must deal with the growing knowledge that he might just be fighting for the wrong side....
A savage crime in the arid wilderness of Gateway leaves a newlywed couple broken and innocents murdered. The jihadists who perpetrate it soon discover they have chosen the wrong victim, for the crime causes Colonel Benjamin Martin to bring his Black Lions to Gateway to fight on the government's behalf. But who is the greater enemy, the fanatics who seek to hurl Gateway into anarchy, or the reactionaries who cling tenaciously to power with every brutal means at their disposal? As he strives to win the war, Martin must deal with the growing knowledge that he might just be fighting for the wrong side....