When the Confederation receives a desperate plea for help from Haulover, a newly colonized planet where someone--or something--is destroying isolated farmhouses, it's time to send in the Marines. Impossible missions are a matter of course for Fourth Force Recon's second platoon squads. But this assignment turns out to be even tougher and bloodier than usual, because the devastation is a ploy to lure the nine Marines into a trap and force them to bust...