TAKE BACK THE BLOODY VEIL
With a new destroyer command under him, now-Captain Daniel Leary and master spy Lady Adele Mundy are off to the backwater Veil region on a diplomatic mission. Did we say diplomatic Yeah, right. What they find is a local warlord ready to throw Cinnabar from the region, a vile aristocrat dealing in slave labor—and a huge Republic of Cinnabar Navy defeat that has thrown the entire sector under the crushing heel of the vile Alliance.
Time to fight back—and that Alliance stronghold in the nearby Monserrat cluster looks awfully vulnerable. Okay, actually, it looks impregnable to any but a determined Leary and Mundy. But should they achieve the impossible yet again, they do have an occupying army nearby—if only they can free it from its chains!
Master and Commander to the Stars!
"[R]ousing old-fashioned space opera."
—Publishers Weekly on the "Cinnabar" series.
"Drake couldn't write a bad action scene at gunpoint."
—Booklist
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Product Review"Trouble rather the tiger in her lair than the scholar among her books." And no, that's not a misquote of "Tactics of Mistake." This is really Adele's book, and while it has the usual things we've come to expect in the RCN series, it also has a lot to do with her reclamation of pieces of her humanity lost with the political murders of her family and the subsequent years of privation.
And the ending is beautiful. It will haunt me for a long time to come.Posted on
