Mercenary's Redemption (The Wild Geese Saga, Book 7)

In Mercenary's Redemption, the seventh Wild Geese novel by Steven M. Silver, Free Union President Peter Mavis Carmichael, the cunning and ruthless leader of the most powerful bloc among humanity's Settled Worlds, struggles to maintain his grip on power. At the same time, on the backwater farming world of Kodomir, a member of the Free Union, the man known as Gwielgi tries to find peace with his demons. His grief and guilt drive him into a desert. As fighting rises within the Free Union, Carmichael is believed dead and chaos rapidly spreads and Kodomir is occupied by a brutal leader of the insurgency. Gwielgi watches events with grim eyes, trying to stay distant from the violence. But no one truly escapes their demons and Gwielgi must confront his again as he joins with others to free his home.

Steven M. Silver draws again on his experience as an historian, psychologist, and combat veteran. Here he presents a story that sweeps across worlds but ultimately is about the decisions individual men and women make and the risks, physical and moral, they run to keep their people free.