When John Bravais was sent on a secret mission to observe a war in North Africa he found out more than it was safe for him to know—even after he had secretly been surgically transformed so that he was as strong as a Bolo tank, and nearly as tough: Wolf-like aliens, invisible to the ordinary eye, were harvesting the brains of the fallen fighters! Bravais might have become the Ultimate Warrior, but still he was only one man against A Plague of Demons.

Im Dämmerlicht des plumpen Empfangsgebäudes, dessen schmutziggraue Farbe den düsteren Eindruck noch verstärkte, scharten sich der Botschaftsrat, zwei Botschaftssekretäre und die Attachés um den Gesandten Spradley. Die bunten Orden der Diplomaten brachten ein wenig Farbe in die trübe Halle. Ungeduldig sah der Gesandte auf seine Fingeruhr. „Sind Sie sicher, Ben, daß die Zeit unserer Ankunft genau mitgeteilt wurde?“

Le général avait bien l’intention de monter en grade. Il fallait donc qu’il vienne à bout de ce terrible engin.

A collection of stories

The classic military dilemma-preventing those who defend you from turning on you-is seemingly solved with the implementation of the Bolos, mechanical servants with artificial intelligence and state-of-the-art high-tech weaponry. But when the implacable alien Deng invade Earth, the Bolos leap to the offensive with a war plan that doesn't take humanity into account.