When Legionnaire Peter Crogan loses a friend & comrade to a violent sand storm he is forced to make a tough choice Should he wait out the rapidly approaching end of his five-year term of service with the French Foreign Legion or should he accept an offer of promotion & devote his life to a campaign whose purpose is an enigma to him? Crogan won&t have much time to consider his options as he&s besieged by the armies of the infamous Tuaregs under attack from desert raiders beat down by the relentless heat & trapped in a cave with a mysterious & terrible creature that is picking off the people in his party one-by-one by Chris Schweizer