Intriguing. Humanity is losing the war. The Mantes have them outgunned to an unimaginable degree and it is all over but the shouting (and of course, the final extermination of the human species). Then a Mantis scholar drops in to chat with Harry, the Chaplain's Assistant, at what amounts to a POW camp. He has to chat with the Chaplain's Assistant because the chaplain died of injuries received in the action that resulted in all of them being confined as they are. The Mantes are essential without anything resembling religion, and while extermination of competitor species is their basic mode of operation, they wish to investigate the concept in case it has some pertinence to their own society. Harry is without religion himself, and was only made a Chaplain's Assistant because the guy making the assignments didn't like him much.
All that said, Harry manages to arrange a temporary cease-fire, then to completely undermine Mantis society and end the war - and save the human race. And --- find something strongly resembling faith for himself.
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