Ronald Crisp, ex-Marine and now full-time mercenary, leads a small elite team to Sybaris, a wasteland world where hideous murders and even cannibalism have been reported by terrified research scientists and miners. Only a planet of the damned could generate so much misery, mayhem, and Machiavellian conspiracies--as Crisp confronts winds and sand that threaten to shear the flesh from men's bones and the indigenous wildlife and plants that arise from nowhere and return beneath the surface in a matter of minutes. But it is the human--or once human--nightmarish army feasting on the settlers that will chill the heart of a calculating and self-serving anti-hero like Crisp. Especially when he discovers that he knows the evil only too well...and finally learns why Sybaris is called the "Resurrection Planet."