Honourable Enemies. In Love and War, #16

Once, Colonel Brian Mayhew was the deputy commander of the Republican Special Commando Forces. But now he's gone AWOL to take out crime lord Rick Santerna, the man who murdered his family. Mayhew's quest for vengeance brings him to the rim world of Maciste, where he runs into his former protégé Mikhail Grikov, now wanted as a traitor and deserter for eloping with enemy soldier Anjali Patel. Mayhew knows that it's his duty to bring in Mikhail and Anjali.
But with Santerna hot his tail, he finds that he needs their help. Mikhail and Anjali know that Brian Mayhew is a threat to their freedom and their new life together. But now they are faced with a hard choice. Should they risk their lives to help a man who could condemn them both to death or should they let Mayhew die in the Great Arena of Maciste? This is a short novel of 57000 words or approximately 200 print pages in the "In Love and War" series, but may be read as a standalone.