"They sentenced me to death, and then told me that I had my choice of either being rendered down so that my body's chemicals could fertilize the hydroponic vats, or joining the army.

I picked the army, but I soon learned that I had screwed up again."

This novel follows the battle experiences of a reluctant man, convicted for producing another child on an already overextended planet, as he fights in league with his superintelligent tank as a mercenary in another people's war.