Karnivaal Season

If the cash is there, we do not care.. Commander Aamon Savage had been betrayed and left for dead on the Axis-occupied world of Starkwelt by an intelligence agent from his own star nation. He'd survived the experience, albeit a good deal less trusting of his birth nation's espionage establishment. Out of uniform after having resigned his commission, and running his own successful private security company--Solutions LLC--from the relative safety of neutral New Switzerland as storm clouds of war gather between the Eugenian Central Nations-led Axis and the UTS-dominated Alliance, he accepts a lucrative contract from a former lover....a representative of the same Union intelligence service that had previously betrayed him.
The job: return to Starkwelt under a false identity, then get close to, kidnap, and bring alive to the Alliance a high-ranking official in the Starkwelt Occupation Authority while she visits her flame in the tropical holiday-resort city of Karnivaal. He neither knows nor cares why; the offered compensation is far too generous for him to pass up or to pry too deeply into his client's motives. He'll get quite a bit of help to accomplish his mission: from his former lover, an ambitious operative of the Union's premiere intelligence outfit; from a young New Swiss diplomat, recruited by the Starkweltean Resistance and risking her country's neutrality--and her own life--by working for it; and from a Starkweltean military intelligence agent, an old friend-turned-foe from Aamon's sordid and violent past.
 Aamon knows that his task will be far from easy, especially with the Starkweltean security services and their more terrifying Axis counterparts on the job, and likely discreetly clocking his every move. And as a Neohuman Hybrid trying to pass for Eugenian in a country whose regime is collaborating with its occupiers to exterminate his kind, Aamon knows that mistakes on his part could have lethal consequences.
Whether exploiting friendly assets, manipulating and eliminating potential threats, or trying not to make the sorts of errors that could land him in jail or end his life, the wily ex-naval officer will need to draw upon every bit of his own extensive training and acumen as a gunfighter and spy, use every shred of guile and charm that he can muster, and employ every nasty trick at his disposal to survive his mission in Karnivaal, let alone successfully fulfill his contract and reach his payday.