Series: Book 1 in the Helfort's War series
Rating: **
Tags: EN-SF-Military, Lang:en
Summary
“A planet-stomping space opera
that bursts off the page like a tactical
nuke.”–John Birmingham, author of Weapons of
ChoiceThe Hammer Worlds–the most brutal and oppressive
interstellar government in the universe–have hijacked the
Federated Worlds cruise ship Mumtaz, seizing its valuable
terraforming cargo and damning its passengers to mining the
moons of the prison planet known as Hell. For Junior Lieutenant
Michael Helfort and the crew aboard deep space scout vessel
387, the mission is clear: infiltrate enemy territory, locate
the Mumtaz, and rescue the prisoners.The odds are appalling,
and the damage will probably be fatal, but victory is
nonnegotiable–especially for Helfort, whose mother and
sister were on the Mumtaz. And Michael Helfort will be damned
if he’ll let his family rot on the moons of Hell.