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- Captain Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy, have been in the
front lines of Cinnabar's struggle against the totalitarian Alliance. Now these
galactic superpowers have signed a peace of mutual exhaustion...but the jackals
are moving in!- The Republic of Cinnabar was on the verge of collapse under the weight of
taxes, casualties, and war's disruption of trade. That the Alliance of Free
Stars was in even worse condition helped only because it has made peace
possible. Years of war have been hard on Daniel and harder still on Adele, whose
life outside information-gathering is a tightrope...
- Captain Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy, have been in the
front lines of Cinnabar's struggle against the totalitarian Alliance. Now these
galactic superpowers have signed a peace of mutual exhaustion...but the jackals
are moving in! - The Republic of Cinnabar was on the verge of collapse under the weight of
taxes, casualties, and war's disruption of trade. That the Alliance of Free
Stars was in even worse condition helped only because it has made peace
possible. Years of war have been hard on Daniel and harder still on Adele, whose
life outside information-gathering is a tightrope between despair and deadly
violence. Their masters in the RCN and the Republic's intelligence service have
sent them to the fringes of human space to relax away from danger. But the
barbarians of the outer reaches have their own plans, plans which will bring
down both Cinnabar and the Alliance. Unless Daniel, Adele, and their unlikely
allies succeed, galactic civilization will disintegrate into blood and chaos. So
they will succeed — or they'll die trying.
- ISBN10 1439134456
- ISBN13 9781439134450
- Publish Date 1 August 2011 (first published 20 September 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Baen Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English
9781439133668
Hardcover
9781522688310
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