<p>Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.</p><p>That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game -- as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war.</p><p>The highly-anticipated conclusion to John Scalzi's SF trilogy begun with <i>Old Man's War</i> and<i>The Ghost Brigades</i> concludes with<i> The</i> <i>Last Colony</i></p>