Jove, New York, 1988, 2^nd pr.  ISBN 0-515-09701-2.  MMPB, 168 pages.  Good; wraps show edge and cover wear, rubs, creases and reading creases; binding sound with a lean.  Book store stamp in bottom margin of first page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; date stamped on bottom edge.  ‘Casca returns to the Middle East.  But it’s the twentieth century, and he’s signed on to fight a religious war.  Outnumbered and poorly equipped, many of the recruits have never seen combat.  Casca expects a slaughter.  It won’t be the first time he’s seen his comrades turning the merciless desert sands red with their own blood.  But how could the Eternal Mercenary have known that he’s joined the most devastatingly efficient army of the modern age?  For what begins as a slaughter - ends in a six-day victory!’ (from rear wrap)