Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon passed on like cloths by his late cousin She often leaves him waiting outside like a dog when she does business While she sees a notary about an inheritance hes seduced to a bar by a shady man The rogue gets Fernand drunk knocks him out and switches costumes and papers Hes now Robert Durand a voluntary Foreign legion recruit After failed attempts to explain he tastes military life and finds it less disciplined and more enjoyable then marriage But will that last when his wife tracks him and his unit is sent to action in tribal Algeria