Even for the most resourceful Peace-Bull soldier, some resources can't be improvised; one of these is gasoline, a fact Tech Sergeant Vic Ross and Corporal Oliver Rhodey are learning the hard way. With a deadly skirmish already behind them, a long walk ahead of them, and the murderous Florentine out there somewhere, the two Bulls set off down a road that will lead them into something far more dangerous than any battleground... history itself.