โ Scribed by Elizabeth Moon; Cynthia Holloway
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Kylara Vatta, risk-taking, rule-breaking, can-do heroine of Trading in Danger, is back in businessthe kind thats anything but usualin the new military science fiction adventure by ace action storyteller Elizabeth Moon.
The exciting military career she hoped for never got off the groundbut Ky Vatta ended up seeing plenty of combat when she took the helm of one of the commercial transport vessels in her familys fleet . . . and steered it into a full-blown war. Now the lessons she learned in that trial by fire are about to pay off: because this time, the war has come to her. To be exact, someone unknown has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Kys fathers interstellar shipping empire. In short order, most of Kys family is killed, and subsequent attacks sever vital lines of communication, leaving Ky fighting, in every sense, to survive.
Determined to identify the ruthless mystery enemy and avenge her familys name, Ky needs not only firepower but information. And she gets both in spadesfrom the band of stranded mercenaries she hooks up with, from her black-sheep cousin, Stella, whos been leading a secret life, and from Stellas roguish ex-lover, Rafe. Together they struggle to penetrate the tangled web of political intrigue thats wreaking havoc within InterStellar Communications, whose effective operation their own livelihoodsand perhaps livesdepend on.
But the infighting proves to be infectious, and it isnt long before Kys hired military muscle are turning their suspicions on the enigmatic Rafe, whose wealth of knowledge about ISCs clashing factions and startling new technologies has begun to make him smell like a rat . . . or a mole. With swift, violent destruction a very real possibility, the last thing Ky needs is a crew divided against itselfand shes prepared to take whatever measures are necessary to ensure that Vatta stays in business, as well as in one piece.
What shes not prepared for is the shocking truth behind the terror and a confrontation with murderous treachery from a source as unexpected as it is unrelenting.
From the Hardcover edition.
Library : Science Fiction
Universes : Vatta's War [02]
Formats : EPUB
Read : Read
ISBN : 9780345447593
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