Retirement had not truly suited Heinrich. Then again, the heir to the Koch family fortune had never expected to make a lifelong career out of the military.
When he went to the Royal Prussian Main Cadet Institute as just a young man he had done so for a simple reason. To earn his family a noble title.
He expected to be a field officer who saw some combat in minor colonial skirmishes. And in doing so gained the eye of the Kaiser. After that, he had wanted to retire and live a luxurious life of a nobleman, spending the first decade after service travelling the world and enjoying the company of the world's many exotic beauties.
Life… had other plans.
In that academy, he had forged a bond with a talented young cadet named Bruno von Zehntner and their mischievous friend Erich von Humboldt.
He had not thought that the fighting in the Orient would make it impossible for him to leave the military.
