Bugle and Spur

At Fort Dragoon, survival depends on more than courage—it depends on who's giving the orders.

Lieutenant Ben Hannibal is the finest soldier on the frontier: battle-tested, fearless, and fiercely loyal to his men. But the moment he arrives at Fort Dragoon, he finds himself targeted by a ruthless commanding officer with a reputation for destroying young officers for sport.

Colonel Mallory rules the post with intimidation and cruelty, assigning Hannibal every filthy, impossible duty while driving the regiment into a deadly campaign against the legendary Apache chief Togomasai—dead or alive.

As tensions rise and the desert war turns savage, Hannibal realizes the greatest threat may not come from the Apache warriors hunting in the mountains, but from the cold-blooded colonel determined to break him.

Now, trapped between an unforgiving frontier and a commander who wants him ruined, Hannibal faces a brutal choice: obey orders ... or fight the man wearing the same uniform.