If he survives, hell just may freeze over.The savage Hammer Worlds are not only near invincible but almost certain to win their war to crush the Federated Worlds and control humanspaceunless the Feds can find and destroy their secret antimatter warhead facility.Only dreadnoughts, the lone Federated ships able to withstand antimatter missile attacks, can do the job, and only Lieutenant Michael Helfort has the skill to lead them. But skill may not be enough, because Helfort is more than the newly appointed captain: Hes a hero, and this means that his own senior officers want him to failand that the enemys kingpin wants him dead.Helforts early victories merely intensify everyones determination. No action is too low, no price too high, to bring him downwith treachery, or betrayal, or an offer he cant refuse, even if it means selling out his own side.From the Paperback edition.