(I know I sound rather like a "me, too!" echo . . . but my poor brain doesn't work these days without a hard poke in its ribs . . .)

I like it, too. In fact, I own two copies: I bought the second years after the first, having forgotten that I already owned it but being excited by the author and the blurp. And it *does* read like a merc ticket where the PCs manage to pull their bacon out of the fire by the skin of their teeth.

But it would be a challenge to actually run it as an adventure. The book's plot depends hugely on the knowledge and leadership qualities of one protagonist, who is a native of the world concerned rather than a mercenary himself and also an officer in a generally-despised (by the mercs) local battalion of corrupt support troops. It would be a challenge to keep this background and plot structure intact without either making the players feel like they were either being railroaded or that most of them were playing back-up band to the lead character.