A serial by Martin Slusser. In this, the first book about the infamous Janissary Project, we first meet Benny Grey, a young "stud" who has been genetically and medically altered by the government for its own, vile purposes. Saved from a life of child prostitution and murder, Grey tries to come to grips with a past which haunts him and, if the present is any indication, a future he will not live to see