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The Fortress In Orion by Mike Resnick

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Also by Mike Resnick:

The Mistress of Illusions, April 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Master of Dreams, April 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Prison in Antares, December 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Fortress In Orion, December 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Cassandra Project, November 2012
Hardcover / e-Book

THE FORTRESS IN ORION
By: Mike Resnick

Dead Enders
Pyr
December 2014
On Sale: December 2, 2014
303 pages
ISBN: 1616149906
EAN: 9781616149901
Kindle: B00KUQAHAW
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Science Fiction

The Democracy is at war with the alien Traanskei Coalition. War hero Colonel Nathan Pretorius has a record of success on dangerous behind-enemy-lines missions, missions that usually leave him in the hospital. Now he's recruited for a near-impossible assignment that may well leave him dead.

At the cost of many lives, the Democracy has managed to clone and train General Michkag, one of the Traanskei's master strategists. Colonel Pretorius and a hand-picked team must kidnap the real Michkag if they can, assassinate him if they can't, but no matter which, put the clone in his place, where he will misdirect the enemy's forces and funnel vital information to the Democracy.

Against the odds, Pretorius, along with Cyborg Felix Ortega, computer expert Toni Levi, convict and contortionist Sally "Snake" Kowalski, the near-human empath Marlowe, the alien Gzychurlyx, and Madam Methuselah - the Dead Enders - must infiltrate the Fortress in Orion, accomplish their mission, and escape with their lives.