A Stranger's Skin

George Pettersen traded his seventy-three-year-old body for a vat-grown weapon and a ten-year contract defending humanity's frontier colonies—but nobody told him he'd be fighting the wrong war. Dropped onto a jungle world to protect settlers from a territorial alien species, George discovers the military deliberately provoked the conflict, using colonists as bait. Now he must choose between the uniform he wears and the truth buried beneath an alien world's living soil.