Really like this series. It continues to be good with it's hints of very, very nasty military secrets and also helps establish the brothers and their past more as well as their current "family" as it is.

From inside flap..."During a near-fatal encounter with an assassin named Sca, Edward's auto-mail arm is destroyed and Alphonse is incapacitated. Escorted b major Armstrong, the damaged Elric brothers return to their hometown for repairs..." ( )

This volume gives more of the backstory of the brothers Elric when they travel to their home town of Resembool, and the covert activities of their own government when they pay a visit to the secret Laboratory Five. ( )