[bksvol-discuss] PREVALIDATED: The Shadow of Saganami
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:31:24 -0600
RTF file. Headers stripped, Spell checked, and proof read. Should be an
easy validation. 767 pages.
Gerald
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Subject: [bookshare-discuss] SUBMITTED: The Shadow of Saganami
This is the latest book in David Weber's Honorverse books. It came out last
November.
The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of
Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami
Island, the Royal Manticoran Navy's academy, are going straight from the
classroom to the blazing reality of all-out war.
Except for the midshipmen assigned to the heavy cruiser HMS Hexapuma, that
is. They're being assigned to the Talbott Cluster, an out of the way
backwater, far from the battle front. The most they can look forward to is
the capture of the occasional pirate cruiser and the boring duty of
supporting the Cluster's peaceful integration with the Star Kingdom at the
freely expressed will of eighty percent of the Cluster's citizens. With a
captain who may have seen too much of war and a station commander who isn't
precisely noted for his brilliant and insightful command style, it isn't
exactly what the students of Honor Harrington, the "Salamander," expected.
But things aren't as simple - or tranquil - as they appear. The "pirates"
they encounter aren't what they seem, and the "peaceful integration" they
expected turns into something very different. A powerful alliance of corrupt
Solarian League bureaucrats and ruthless interstellar corporations is
determined to prevent the Cluster's annexation by the Star Kingdom ... by
any means necessary. Pirates, terrorists, genetic slavers, smuggled weapons,
longstanding personal hatreds, and a vicious alliance of corporate greed,
bureaucratic arrogance, and a corrupt local star nation with a powerful
fleet, are all coming together, and only Hexapuma, her war-weary captain,
and Honor Harrington's students stand in the path.
They have only one thing to support and guide them: the tradition of
Saganami. The tradition that sometimes a Queen's officer's duty is to face
impossible odds? and die fighting.
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