Lieutenant Harry Wilson is one of those who are still loyal to the Colonial Union and he is on a mission to find out who is behind the whole tension. There is a threat that a group from the humans is actually planning these fights between the humans and aliens so that their personal goals can be fulfilled.
John Scalzi paints a disastrous time for the humans and aliens together in this novel. Old Man’s War and The Collapsing Empire never portrayed a situation in which the aliens were being deceived by a human group. In this novel narrated by John Scalzi himself along with Tavia Gilbert and William Dufris there is a group of humans that acting as a catalyst in war.