Bennett Coles served 15 years in the Canadian Navy as a bridge officer, boarding party officer, warfare officer, and navigator, and served a pair of tours in the Middle East as a UN Military Observer. A rising Canadian author, he led the maverick publisher Promontory Press, supporting Canadian and American writers.

COLES WRITES WITH VERACITY, WITH A DELICIOUS STREAK OF SUBVERSION."
STEVEN ERIKSON, New York Times bestselling author of Gardens of the Moon

Lieutenant Katja Emmes is assigned to the fast-attack craft Rapier , joining a mission to investigate weapons smuggling activity between the Terran colonies of Sirius and Centauria. If true, this act of rebellion could escalate rapidly, and lead to all-out war.

When combat does erupt, its ferocity stuns the Terran forces, and pushes them to their limits. It tests the abilities of Lieutenant Emmes, as well, along with Sublieutenant Jack Mallory and Lieutenant Commander Thomas Kane, commanding officer of the Rapier . But failure is not acceptable.

They must defeat the enemy... by whatever means necessary.

"PULSE-POUNDING MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION FROM A NEW MASTER OF THE GENRE."
WILLIAM C. DIETZ, bestselling author of Andromeda's Fall

"DELIVERED AT MAXIMUM VELOCITY WITH LASER-GUIDED PRECISION."
CHRIS EVANS, author of Of Bone and Thunder

"VICARIOUS THRILL RIDES THAT GET THE READER'S HEART PUMPING... WROUGHT WITH SUSPENSE."
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