Blood enemies

"Andrej Koscuisko is a former Fleet Medical Officer for the enormous totalitarian star empire, the Jurisdiction. When he served in the Fleet, Andrej's real job was to act as a torturer of prisoners, whether they had information or not. But Andrej absconded with six of his Fleet-provided security slaves and sent them into the no-man's land of Gonebeyond Space--beyond the reach of the Jurisdiction's tyrannical Bench. Now he must save a secret agent...