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PROLOGUE
Or persuade them that they had to work together with the human survivors if either group was going to see their homes again before the brown dwarf s strange radiation filtered through the clouds and killed them slowly.CHAPTER 1
The man whose court-martial had been a sensation across the Confederation, and whose acquittal had aroused indignation on nearly every world in the human sphere.CHAPTER 2
The long days of frustration and exile were over. The day of the Haka was at hand.CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
Williams smiled coldly. “I’ll get on it. But I still think you should consider my other suggestion.” “Assassinating Kruger?” Mancini shook his head. “Too risky. The Cats don’t operate that way, so you can’t throw suspicion on them. And you risk setting him up as a martyr, both here and back home. Do that and you’ll set us back even more than a Landreich victory against Ragark would. No, we keep our hands off Kruger for the time being. We harass him diplomatically, and stir up as much political trouble as we can, and take action to keep his underlings from putting one over on Ragark. But we leave Max Kruger alone. Let the Cats deal with him, when they bomb that pretty little palace of his into debris.”CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
“Maybe not. But I keep remembering that the bomb that took out Kilrah was small enough to be carried in the munitions load of a heavy fighter. And big as this old rustbucket is, she ain’t exactly planet-sized.”CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
And he knew what that action had to be.CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
After a moment, Richards nodded. “I think you’re right, Jason. Very well, Lord Murragh. Commander Graham. Welcome to the Goliath Project.”CHAPTER 11
And so the work went on.CHAPTER 12
“I want you to move as quickly as you can,” Williams told him. “We want to nail Tolwyn and Richards before they have a chance to get the carrier in any better shape than it already is. And we want to make sure we hit them hard.”CHAPTER 13
“Roger that.” Suddenly Jason Bondarevsky felt very tired. The Black Cats had won their first victory, but it didn’t seem much like a triumph.CHAPTER 14
“That was just a sample. You’ll find things will get much worse as time goes on, Antonio. Much, much worse.”CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
“Your part will come soon enough,” Ragark assured him. “And your name will be remembered long after high-born fools like Thrakhath and that scum Ghadhark have been forgotten.”CHAPTER 17
“I know. I wrote those, too. They have a whole lot of nonsense to go through, formally establishing my absence from the capitol, waiting to see if they can locate me or my designated Speaker, declaring me formally in contempt, appointing a Speaker-Designate ... it’ll take them a week to get back to the business at hand, Captain. And meanwhile we’re going Cat-hunting at Ilios. The crisis will be over inside of that week. If we win, it won’t matter if they vote me out. And if we lose, either at Ilios or at Baka Kar, then it won’t matter one damned bit who’s President when we all go under.” He straightened his shoulders. “Now pass on my orders, Captain Tolwyn, and let’s get this show on the road.”CHAPTER 18
For Geoff Tolwyn, that was enough and all else, all the other things were at last, for this moment, forgotten. Things were again as they once were.CHAPTER 19
Even insect stings could kill.CHAPTER 20
But Ukar dai Ragark would not forget this day.EPILOGUE
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