The Privateer: The Flight Engineer, Volume II
 THESE
SPACE PIRATES
ARE THE GOOD
GUYS!
Peter
Raeder was an ace pilot in the Commonwealths war against the
secessionist Mollies until a battle
cost him his handand his right to fly the fighter ships he loved. So
he became Flight Engineer on the fast carrier Invincible,
a crack new ship with a picked crew, ready to fight the fanatical
Mollies and their spiderlike alien allies. On his first mission, he
faced pirate raiders, attacks by Mollies and a hidden saboteur on board
who came close to destroying the Invincible
before Raeder unmasked him.
Unfortunately
for Raeder, his heroism didnt follow the rulebook, and his reward for
saving the ship was a reprimand from an admiral who didnt trust him,
and a deskbound assignmenta fate worse than death for a born
spacehound like Raeder. Then a less rulebound Marine General offered
Raeder an escape: command of a hidden base deep in Mollie-controlled
space from which ships, posing as space pirates, will harry Mollie
shipping, like the seagoing privateers of Earths past. And Raeder
finds a dangerous mission preferable to exile to an office cubicle . . .
even if his chances of surviving this assignment are very nearly zero.
. . .
Doohan (Scotty on the original TV series Star
Trek) and SF veteran Stirling again deliver the exhilarating
action that their fans want. . . . Doohan fans will be delighted as the
high-spirited crew of the Dauntless
set out on their new ship, The
Invincible . . . sharply drawn characters and rousing
adventure with an energetic story line, offering first-rate escapist
entertainment.
Publishers
Weekly
The
collaboration of Star
Treks Scottie and top action-sf writer Stirling is a good
one. The two have compatible senses of humor. . . . Solid astronautical
fare.
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Cover art by David Mattingly
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