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A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

"Callaghen's business is soldiering. For twenty years he fought all over the world, from China to the deserts of California; now he's a private in the U.S. Cavalry, poorly paid, his enlistment about to run out. He's ready to move on...until he comes across a startling discovery: a treasure map belonging to a dead lieutenant who may not have been all that he seemed. The map points the way to an underground river of gold...or does it? To find out, Callaghen...

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers, Blake's own brother among them.

The aliens known as Avatari are on the move, incinerating the few remaining inhabited planets as they make their way toward Earth while the Clone Empire and the U.A. vie for control of the doomed galactic republic. Now Harris must race against an unstoppable enemy while battling the ruthless U.A. forces even as he struggles with the questions he has asked for years: is he truly self-willed, or is he still being controlled in a way he cannot imagine?...