Dustcover shows slight wear - Book is in Fine Condition - Drake returns with great success to the pattern of his best military sf novels. After a near-suicidal operation, an elite company of recon troops has been "redlined" --declared pyschologically unfit. A complex and somewhat improbable experiment is mounted to save them: they will escort a column of civilians across an intensely hostile world to a final confrontation at an alien biological warfare center. This scenario proves the foundation of an excellent book, full of Drake's usual superb action scenes and ingenious weapons and menaces. Drake also does considerably better by his characters, both civil and military (including the women): even one of his stock-in-trade personae, the guilt-obsessed trooper, takes on new life under the name of Caius Blohm. This is, far and away, the prolific Drake's best book since "The Sharp End" (1993).

Exciting action from "the master of the mercenary science fiction novel" (Rave Reviews) and author of Northworld. After the death of the Earth, humankind live in domed undersea Keeps on the planet Venus. And only the mercenary naval troops called Free Companies venture out to wage the Keeps' proxy wars against the lethal lifeforms on the surface.

0743488644 While the Republic of Cinnabar is at peace with the Alliance, warriors like Lt. Daniel Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy must find other work--like escorting a pair of wealthy nobles on an expedition to the back of beyond! The Princess Cecile, the corvette in which they carved their reputations in letters of fire, has been sold as a private yacht, but she still has her guns, her missiles, and her veteran crew. Daniel and Adele will need all of those things as they face winged dragons, an Alliance auxiliary cruiser, jealous lovers, and a mysterious oracle which really does foresee the future. That won't be enough, though, when they penetrate a secret Alliance base and find a hostile fleet ready for a war that will sweep Cinnabar out of a strategically crucial arm of the galaxy. Preventing that will involve skill, courage, and more luck than a sane man could even pray for; and it will require a space battle on a scale that a tiny corvette like the Princess Cecile has no business being involved in. But she'll be in the middle of it anyway, because Daniel, Adele, and their Cinnabar crew would never turn their backs on a fight!

0812513401 spine creases, light edge wear; Lissea Doorman wasn't one to refuse a challenge. Challenged by the rulers of Telaria to run a suicide mission, she put together a crew of tough mercenaries and brilliant specialists, ready for anything. Their journey took them through strange worlds, all the way to the Lost Colony--where they learned that their adventure was only just beginning.

0671577875 spine creasing, edge wear; The inhuman Rulers of the galaxy sent three fleets to the world located by Captain North's Survey team. None returned. The fourth time, the Rulers sent a single man: Nils Hansen. Commissioner Hansen had a mind that saw the shortest path to each task's completion and a ruthless determination to do what the task required. The cost--to himself and whoever happened to be in the way--didn't matter. Hansen's iron will and strong arm confront godlike power and godlike cunning while a galaxy trembles for the outcome. And if Hansen dies--he will not die alone!

0765354764 edge wear; In the Lord of the Isles, Drake returns to fantasy with an adventure set in an extraordinary world where the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak. Into this world, survivors from the last magical peak intrude: Tenoctris, a quiet and scholarly sorceress swept out of the past at the moment of final catastrophe as her civilization sank beneath the sea; the ghost of the greatest ruler, King Carus of the Isles; and the great magician known only as The Hooded One, who actually caused that ancient catastrophe. In the days following an unusually severe storm in a tiny seaport town, life is disrupted. First, young Garric rescues the castaway Tenoctris; then, amazingly, a huge galley lands, bearing a court envoy searching for the lost heir to a dukedom - and finding her in Sharina, Garric's sister. Immediately after the galley departs with Sharina to seek out her destiny, another party arrives by coach, led by a merchant sorcerer eager to hire Garric - who sets out with this party, accompanied by Tenoctris and by the shepherd Cashel and his sister, Ilna, both of whom are discovered to have some magical power. Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, all travel toward romance, danger, and astonishing magic that will transform them and their world.

0671578219 light edge wear; spine uncreased; Hammer's Slammer Don Slade is coming home to the planet Tethys, to his son and the woman he loves. But the space between is cold and dark. And the stars he must pass shine their light on planets which beckon the weary traveler, planets which hold hidden dangers. And if Don Slade should ever reach Tethys, that is when the real fighting starts...

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The third novel in the Lord of the Isles SagaServant of the Dragon is the third book of the bestselling series Lord of the Isles, the towering fantasy epic which began with the title volume and continued with Queen of Demons. The rich and colourful journeys of Cashel and Sharina Garric and Ilna through the many kingdoms of the Isles continue, as Sharina is snatched back through time by the spirit of a wizard.