"This Will Be a Quick War" Twenty years ago, Hanlin and Thorem fought side by side as mercenaries in the Border Wars, hired by rich landowners and the settled business interests to push the western frontier farther into lands held by the westlings-the kirangee, the People, who have lived there for untold generations. Now the business interests intend to encroach still farther on the territory held by the People. Hired by the wealthy Lady Sil...