The royal brat is in trouble.

Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock was young, handsome, athletic, an excellent dresser, and third in line for the Throne of Man. So why wouldn’t anyone at Court trust him? It wasn’t surprising that he became spoiled, self-centered, and petulant. After all, what else did he have to do with his life?

But that was before his mother the empress packed him off to a backwater planet, a saboteur tried to blow up his ship, and he found himself shipwrecked on the planet Marduk, with jungles full of damnbeasts, killerpillars, carnivorous plants, and barbarian hordes with really bad dispositions. Now all Roger has to do is hike halfway around the planet, capture a spaceport from the Bad Guys, commandeer a starship, and then go home.

Fortunately, Roger has an ace in the hole: Bravo Company of Bronze Battalion of the Empress’s Own Regiment. If anyone can get him off Marduk alive, it’s the Bronze Barbarians, assuming that Prince Roger manages to grow up before he gets all of them killed.

David Weber is author of the New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington series as well as other popular novels, including some based on his Starfire science-fiction strategy game. He lives in South Carolina with his wife and their three children.