A new novel in the nationally best-selling RCN military SF series.
David Drake, dean of military science fiction, returns with another
entry in his best-selling RCN series.
From wealth and power to poverty and insults!
Roy Olfetrie planned to be an officer in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy,
but when his father was unmasked as a white-collar criminal he had to
take whatever he was offered.
What is offered turns out to be a chance to accompany Captain Daniel
Leary and Lady Adele Mundy as they go off to start a war that will put
Roy at the sharp end.
Duty snatches Roy from the harem of a pirate chief to a world of
monsters, from interstellar reaches in a half-wrecked starship to
assassination attempts at posh houses. Roy has the choice of making
friends or dying friendless; of meeting betrayal and responding to it;
of breaking his faith or keeping it at the risk of his life.
Pirates, politics, and spies - and, waiting for Roy if he survives all
the rest, a powerful warship.
The action doesn't slow - nor can Roy, for if he does the only question
is which of the many threats will be the one to catch and kill him. But
Captain Leary himself has given Roy a chance, and Roy is determined make
the most of it - Though Hell Should Bar the Way.
