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Cohort of the Damned, The Fifth Foreign Legion

A fugitive on the run tries to escape his dark past by joining the fight against the aliens in this military sci-fi series.

Wolfgang Hauser was a privileged and pampered aristocrat—until the day aliens invaded his world and took everything from him. Now he’s an outcast accused of cowardice and murder. Without a family or a home, he’s on the run. And the only chance he has to escape his enemies is to join the Fifth Foreign Legion.

But the Legion demands a high price from the misfits who flock to his banner in search of a new life. Wolfgang must now surrender his name, his beliefs, and his very identity to become a Legionnaire. But after losing so much already, can he bare the cost of hope?

Andrew Keith, William H. Keith

J. Andrew Keith and William H. Keith, Jr., are prolific game designers and authors of adventure science fiction novels. The two brothers worked together for FASA on the Traveller game and then expanded to other gaming universes. As novelists, they wrote for Wing Commander, BattleTech, as well as the Fifth Foreign Legion series. Andrew Keith passed away in 1999. William H. Keith, Jr. produced an enormous number of novels under his own name and various pseudonyms, working with collaborators Stephen Coonts, and Peter Jurasik and Bruce Boxleitner (both from the TV show Babylon 5). Three of his novels have been New York Times bestsellers and his gaming work has won several prominent industry awards.

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