Laumer, Keith The Glory Game BS

ON THE EVE OF THE BIGGEST WAR GAMES IN MILITARY HISTORY!...

Tbe EartlYstop brass were lining up on either side. The softliners were hoping that a show of strength would be a hint to the alien Hukk that their encroachment on Terran soil must end.

But the hardline boys had something morę ambitious in mind: an "incident" to provoke an all-out war and wipe out the ugly, crab-like Hukk completely.

In Commodore Tancredi Dalton both sides thought they had found the right man — a battle-wise veteran young enough to take supreme risks, and wise enough to be trusted with top-secret orders.

Now Dalton is entangled in a diplomatic plot-counterplot: secretly ordered to start a war—and not to... and forbidden to trust anyone on Earth — or anywhere else!