Command Decision-Fast Shipping

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With the Vatta’s War series, award-winning author Elizabeth Moon has claimed a placealongside such preeminent writers of military science fiction as David Weber andLois McMaster Bujold. Now Moon is back–and so is her butt-kicking, take-no-prisonersheroine, Kylara Vatta. Once the black-sheep scion of a prosperous merchant family,Kylara now leads a motley space force dedicated to the defeat of a rapacious pirateempire led by the mysterious Gammis Turek.

After orchestrating a galaxy-wide failureof the communications network owned and maintained by the powerful ISC corporation,Turek and his marauders strike swiftly and without mercy. First they shatter VattaTransport. Then they overrun entire star systems, growing stronger and bolder. Noone is safe from the pirate fleet. But while they continue to move forward with theirdiabolical plan, they have made two critical mistakes.

Their first mistake was killingKylara Vatta’s family.

Their second mistake was leaving her alive.

Now Kylara isgoing to make them pay.

But with a “fleet” consisting of only three ships–includingher flagship, the Vanguard, a souped-up merchant cruiser–Kylara needs allies, andfast. Because even though she possesses the same coveted communication technologyas the enemy, she has nowhere near their numbers or firepower.

Meanwhile, as Kylara’ s cousin Stella tries to bring together the shattered pieces of the family tradingempire, new treachery is unfolding at ISC headquarters, where undercover agent RafaelDunbarger, estranged son of the corporation’s CEO, is trying to learn why the damagednetwork is not being repaired. What he discovers will send shock waves across thegalaxy and crashing into Kylara’s newly christened Space Defense Force at the worstpossible moment.