A preteen desires to go to the war front to fight. But he is not allowed because he is too young. But his persis-tence caused him to succeed in obtaining a copy of the relevant application form to do so. He has to fill out the application form and get two people to sign it. He goes to two of the shopkeepers in the neighborhood and asks them to sign it. But nobody is willing to sign it as people know that he is a naughty boy and drives everyone cra-zy. He eventually persuades people and tricks two men into signing his application form. “The Mercenary Broth-ers” is the first volume of the collection of "Stray Shielding". This 5-volume series is based on the writer's war front memoirs, which while addressing teenagers, has ironical literature. This work has a fluent prose text which improves its memorable style. The stories are short. The titles of the book's stories include the Trustee of our Neighborhood; the naive shelling, Iraqi Godzilla; Persepolis Hurray! ; The Gluttonous, the gifts, the teen chief, the Mercenary Brothers! Tab Tab Abbasi, Abbas’s Cervix.

Davood Amirian is the writer who well-known figure in the Iranian children and young adults' literature. His main interest of subject is war literature. He published his memories of Iran-Iraq war at the age of twenty. Satire and presence of young active and ambitious youths are characteristics of Amiriyan's works. A lot of his books have been published in Iran and other countries, for instance in Russia.