Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife, Princess and kick ass
military leader, is scouting the poorly-mapped rim of human-
populated space. Her task, to eradicate any pirate's nest or
drug-growing enterprise she encounters, without stepping on
sensitive Peterwald family toes or giving the appearance of
gaining influence over any part of the Peterwald's
Greenfeld Territory
Her first task presented by the mission on the planet
Kaskatos brings the difficulties front and center, when she
discover the inhabitants are kept near starvation by
refugees and former Greenfeld State Security members who
fled to the agricultural planet from a Peterwald-held
industrial planet. There is no way to bring order to
Kaskatos and distribute the desperately needed famine relief
without thoroughly eradicating any resistance and setting up
a temporary police force, something difficult to explain
when she inevitably encounters a Peterwald. The stakes ramp
even higher when young twelve-year-old Cara
is kidnapped by slavers and taken though an unfamiliar jump
point. Every person on the Wardhaven Scout Ship, Wasp, is
hunting with blood in their eyes, hoping to rescue
the young crew member before the unimaginable happens.
Readers have come to depend on Mike Shepherd for fast-paced
military science fiction bound to compelling story lines and
adrenaline-pumping battles. This eighth in the Kris
Longknife series does not disappoint. Kris Longknife is a
hero to the core, with plenty of juice left for future
installments.
Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife has precise orders: seek
out, engage, and destroy pirates, slavers, and drug lords
operating beyond the rim of human space-without interfering
in Peterwald family affairs. But when slavers kidnap a
twelve-year-old girl, Kris's mission becomes personal. And
if destroying the pirate compound flattens some Peterwald
interests-well, to hell with politics.
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