Jason MacNeil isn’t a 500 year-old genetically modified supersoldier named Brigadier Fenris. He’s really just a teenager who escaped from a HappyPlace(tm) software coder workhouse, optimistically termed an orphanage.

But he has to act like he is, because his uncle Max is the one who broke him out and needs a hand with his latest gig: guarding archeologists doing research on remote planets.

Then again Uncle Max, isn’t a seedy, washed-up mercenary with crappy gear only interested in easy jobs–even though he does a marvelous job of looking the part.

The ruins that the archeologists have come to explore aren’t the key to unravelling the mysteries of one of the first space-faring peoples in the galaxy, but the ruins aren’t the ruins they end up exploring anyway.

And none of them are going to be as easy to kill as Exquisite Perfectus Antinoz, Ship Lord of the Meritocratic Hegemony, thinks, despite the fact that he has a small, but heavily armed, army at his disposal, and nobody knows they are also on the planet.

In fact, the only certain thing is that the acts being committed high up in the trees by the sentient inhabitants of the planet known as monkeydogs are definitely of a sexual nature.

The details in Teenage Space Mercenary are superb, and the story keeps you guessing at every turn. You’ll love it.