"Planetary brawls were an easy way for Jade Darcy to earn her keep as the only human on the planet Cablans. As one of the top bouncers at Rix's Place--where any alien that could walk, crawl, slither, roll, of otherwise arrive with enough energy units to its credit was welcome to food, drink, or its native equivalent--Jade had often used her military skills to keep the peace. But when another human suddenly turned up on this farthest outpost of the universe looking for her, Jade was sure her worst nightmares had finally caught up with her. And so she sought escape from her human past on a suicide assignment against the most violent alien conquerors this sector of space had ever known--a mission of honor to launch a one-woman, interstellar war"--Back cover.