Fire with Fire
Riverdale, NY : Baen, [2013], ♭13.
Format: Book
Description: 475 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy onEarth's Moon -- a history-changing clandestine project -- andends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordanawakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel andis pioneering nearby star systems. And now, Riordan is compelled to become aninadvertent agent of conspiracy himself. Riordan's mission: travel to anewly settled world and investigate whether a primitive local species was oncesentient -- enough so to have built a lost civilization. However, arrivingon site in the Delta Pavonis system, Caine discovers that the job he'sbeen given is anything but secret -- or safe. Discovering new dangers atevery turn, Riordan must now convince the powers-that-be that the only way forhumanity to survive as a free species is to face the perils directly -- andto fight fire with fire.
ISBN:
9781451638837 (trade pb : alk. paper)
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