Overview
It has been 15 Terran months since Colonel Rodger Murphy and his Lost Soldiers were dropped in the 55 Tauri binary system. Since then, they have forged an uneasy alliance with space-dwelling descendants of the Ktor, liberated the earlier human inhabitants of the planet Rābak, and driven their oppressors from the neighboring system back into a few fortified cities.
But thereās another pivotal battle looming before them: intercepting the Harvester fleet sent by those same oppressors, the Kulsians. And time is growing short. The two stars are nearing periastron, which the natives of RāBak call the Searing, due to the approach of the blistering F-class star. Thatās when the Kulsians cross the 10 AU separating the systems to strip RāBak of rare biological resources and destroy any powers that might become a challenge to future Harvesters. But Murphy has a plan to break that cycle of interstellar rapine. With the cooperation of both indigenous RāBaku and the mutually suspicious Spindogs and Rockhounds, the Lost Soldiersānow sporting the nickname Murphyās Lawlessāhave pulled off a delicate scheme to capture an advanced Kulsian corvette. The objective: to improve the cutting-edge warship and use Spindog āautofabā technology to create a flotilla with which to repel the Harvester fleet.
But true to the source of the Lawless nickname, Murphyās Law may be their greatest foe. Murphyās worsening multiple sclerosis is becoming impossible to hide, and the corvettes are proving far more difficult to replicate than anything the Spindogs have ever attempted.
However, itās the job of training and forging crews from the highly competitive Spindogs and Rock Hounds that is pushing both groups toward mutinyāand possibly murder. The only chance to bring all those forces together? Ex-Navy fighter jock Kevin Bowdenānow known as āThe Admiralāāwho has his work cut out for him.
Problem is, both Bowden and Murphy are running out of time. Not only is the Harvester fleet coming earlier than expected, but itās bigger than ever before. Much bigger. And its objective is clear: to reassert complete control over the system and annihilate Murphyās Lawless, their allies, and any who would stand with them.
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