Joshua Wolf is the only human to have learned the alien Al'ar's killing ways. Mankind believes that the Great War with the Al'ar is over, but Joshua knows the truth. A new war is coming. And he's in the middle. Now is the time for him to fulfill his destiny. Now is the time for him to become the Shadow Warrior!
Joshua Wolfe: Bounty hunter. Federation Intelligence agent. Former friend, then prisoner, of the horrific alien race called the Al'ar. Master of the arcane Al'ar killing arts. And now Federation renegade, searching for Al'ar secrets in the rubble of an old war and the detritus of human lives. No one wanted him to learn those secrets. Not the Federation, which had hired him, then made him a wanted man. Not the deadly Chitet cult, who had their own interests in the Al'ar. And not the Al'ar themselves, whose shadows remained in the form of technological wonders of mystery and violence. His search led him from a mothballed fleet to a private moonlet, to the capital world of the very cult bent on destroying him, to a lethal world of robot protectors . . . and, finally, to an enemy more terrible than anything mankind had yet dreamed of. Wolfe's only friend was Taen, the last Al'ar. Or was he the last?
Humanity's only hope against four sworn enemies, Joshua Wolfe seeks to recover the lost alien crystal known as Ur-Lumina from the hands of a ruthless gangster who controls an entire solar system. Original.