"He's the perfect starship trooper: big, strong, and completely brainwashed. He's the perfect hero: willing to do almost anything to save his neck (it's one of the body parts that's still his own). It's another promotion for Bill--sort of. Now he's an MP on a prison ship. It even sounds like it might be tolerable. All he has to do is guard a shipload of prisoners on their way to a space scrapyard. Nothing could be easier. So what if the captain of the ship is crazy? All officers are crazy. What could possibly go wrong?"--Pg. [4] of cover.