Alexander Thorsson is a frustrated ex-football player and a cashiered Air Force officer, now living life out of a suitcase as an airline pilot. He always thought hed amount to something morethe people of the galaxy think so too. The Galactics have watched Humans for thousands of years; Humans are the most physically powerful, most adaptable and most brutally brilliant sentients in the galaxy. However, when Alexander the Great boasted that his conquests would continue, Even to the everlasting and innumerable stars. the Galactics took him at his word. They live in constant fear that someday Alexander will rise again and lead his legions to conquer the stars. Everyone knows this except Humansand Alexander. Still, the exotic and masterful Nazeera of Chem kidnaps Alexander from Terra and sentences him to death on the fantastic prison planet of Pantrixnia. That should have been the end of Alexander but somehow he refuses to die quietly; given one final chance at destiny Alexander forges ahead and becomes the legend everyone was afraid of. Galactic conspiracy revolves around him, splintering the Galactics into factions vying to ally with Alexander, negotiate with him or to destroy the threat of Alexander and Earth for all time. Earth is caught between its own brutal history and the reality of its insignificance; only Alexander can save his planet from destruction and save the Galactics from destroying themselves.

Alexander Thorsson is at the center of a Galactic firestorm. The sentient races of the Galactic community want him, fear him, despise him and idolize him. That's news to Alexander-he doesn't even believe in extra-terrestrials. Go figure.Alexander is a nobody. He had his chance in the NFL, but injuries forced him out into the real world. He drones about the planet in his airliner, shuffling people from point A to point B, thinking he was meant for more than this.So do the Scythians.The Scythians, a smallish, semi-telepathic sentient race, think they've found their man. The Scythians are on the verge of economic hegemony over the Galaxy, but the warrior race of Chem stand in their way. Having no military of their own, the Scythians use that brilliant, adolescent and violent race from Terra--Humans--as cudgel. After all, every Galactic child knows the violent history of Terra. Terrans are the most physically powerful sentient beings in the Galaxy and their propensity to technological growth-from cart to nuclear bomb in a century-is unheard of and terrifying. Then there was Alexander the Great, who looked to the stars and saw in them more worlds to conquer.The Galactics took him seriously.The Scythians think Alexander, properly manipulated, could be the heir to Alexander the Great. Their equation is simple-submit to Scythian economic domination, or Alexander and his legions will be unleashed on the Galaxy!Alexander Thorsson is about to become the most famous and infamous sentient in the Galaxy. From her seat in the forests of Chem, Nazeera of the Triumvirate hears rumor of Alexander's heir. She sets off for Terra with the intent of cutting Alexander's career short and settling the Terran threat once and for all.

What defines a hero? The cause you champion? A warm smile? A deep-rooted love of orphans and waifs?In the dark realm of Terra Primus, heroes are often not what they seem to be. After all, at what point does justice become revenge? Four individuals, caught up in the turbulent threads of fate, find themselves drawn together and forced to step outside their comfort zones. A crestfallen paladin, a drunken soldier, a renegade assassin, and a monk, all driven by their own vices and desires, inadvertently and unwillingly become part of something bigger than any of them.Terra Primus is truly no place for heroes.

Alexander is back, but just because he's saved Terra doesn't mean he get's to rest on his laurels! If the Galactics feared him before they are terrified of him now, and some Terrans agree with them. Alexander pursues Nazeera, intent on settling his debt of honor with the traitorous Bureel-but Bureel has other plans. Bureel plunges Chem into civil war. He murders the Elder of Chem and assails the fledgling Terran Empire. To make matters worse the new President Sadat, once one of Alexander's closest allies, now turns against Alexander-and Terra. Alexander must now save two empires from extinction!