On the colony planet of Terra Nova, Carrera has achieved his revenge,
destroying those who had destroyed his life by killing his wife and
children in a terrorist strike. And, with this help of his second wife,
he has thwarted an attempted coup that would have restored the rule of
the oligarchy and undone his hard-won victory. But his fight is not over
yet....
The problem of the Tauran Union's control of the Transitway between
Terra Nova and Earth remains, as does the problem of the nuclear-armed
United Earth Peace Fleet, orbiting above the planet. The Taurans will
not leave, and the Balboans--a proud people, with much recent success in
war--will not tolerate that they should remain.
And yet, with one hundred times the population and three or four hundred
times the wealth, the Tauran Union outclasses little Balboa in almost
every way, even without the support of Old Earth. Sadly, they have that
support. Everything, everyone, will have to be used to finish the job of
freeing the country and, if possible, the planet. The children must
fight. The old must serve, too. And the women?
This is their story, the story of Balboa's Tercio Amazona, the Amazon
Regiment.
