| Publisher's Note: We Few is not divided into separate chapters, but simply is separated into the prologue and main text. "Chapter 1" is the only chapter. |
THE HARD WAY
Roger Ramius Sergei Alexander Chiang McClintock hasn't done anything the easy way.
The spoiled playboy prince grew up the hard way on the planet Marduk. Watching ninety percent of your bodyguards — bodyguards who have become friends, closer to you than your own brothers and sisters — die to keep you alive will do that. And it tends to make you dangerous . . . perhaps in too many ways.
Now he's coming home, but home isn't what it was when he left. Traitors have murdered his brother and sister, his nieces and nephews. His mother, the Empress, is still alive, but in the hands of Roger's own biological father, who controls her through drugs and physical and psychological torture. A new heir to the Throne has been conceived, and once the child is born his mother will no longer be necessary to the traitors' plans. Home Fleet, the largest and most powerful of the Empire's fleets is under the traitors' control, and no one in a position of power on Old Earth has the means — or the will — to do anything about it.
And, just to make things perfect, the Empire has been told that the real traitor is Prince Roger Ramius Sergei Alexander Chiang McClintock.
With the twelve survivors of Bravo Company of the Empress' Own, a few hundred three-meter tall Mardukans, his one-time tutor and present chief of staff, an elephant-sized flarta pack beast, his faithful pet Dogzard, and the ghost of his greatest ancestor, Prince Roger must somehow retake the Empire from the men who control it . . . before his new brother is born and his mother dies.
It's an impossible task, but Prince Roger knows all about impossible tasks, and the surviving Bronze Barbarians and the Mardukans of the Basik's Own believe he can do it. They're prepared to storm the gates of Hell itself at his heels in order to retake the Empire.
But after they do, can they save it from Prince Roger, as well
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Product ReviewThis series needs read first to last, for it is really one big tale the publisher had to chop apart. ALL four deserve five stars though too.
I've got a twenty-two year old who together with a group of his high school contemporaries all pledge they won't read any other David Weber Title until he continues this series with Ringo. He's under contract and they're a bit pissed he hasn't made that a priority. It's that good.Posted on
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Product ReviewI just loved that series. Got all 4 books, and did read these all 3 consecutive years all over again. On every read - I discovered little things I had missed before, and really enjoyed reading these again and again.
Definitely one of the best series I have read, and I'd love to see something more in that one.Posted on
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Product ReviewHave really loved all 3 books in this series - great stories, much better characterisation and character drama than in many sci-fi novels and gripping action too.
And I love the different cultures one encounters along the way.
Really great.
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Product ReviewWhere's the next book
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I want to know what happens to the empire in Roger's Hands. And how does his lovely Empress cope? What about Jackson? What about Cord? What about Marduk?Posted on
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Product ReviewGreat read.
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Product ReviewThis series is awesome. It's a very good example of a bildungsroman. Loads of fun, deep characters.. good plot.
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