One Good Soldier
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
26 October 2010
Summary
- One Good Soldier is the third book in the rapid-fire hard sciencemilitary SF series of One Day on Mars and The Tau CetiAgenda. In another 24-like narrative set six years after the eventsin The Tau Ceti Agenda, this exciting action story unfolds in asingle critical day in the history of the United States of the Sol System, theextra-solar colonies, the Separatist Revolutionaries of the Tau Ceti system, andall of mankind.
- As another of Earth’s colonies, Ross 128, secedes from the union, thePresident of the United States, former marine major Alexander Moore, takes swiftaction to prevent a second American Civil War, this time on an interstellarscale. He sends the flagship of the U.S. Naval fleet through the QuauntumMembrane Teleporter based in the Oort Cloud to the seceding colony. But the TauCeti Separatists have stationed their own teleporter there and the flagship willbe met with heavy resistance from the Separatist Navy. And, unknown to thepresident and first lady, their eighteen year old military school cadet daughterhas been kidnapped and whisked away to the Separatist leader’s house on TauCeti. Only the heroics and sacrifices of one good soldier after anothercan save the flagship, the Union, and the first daughter in an all-outwinner-take-all showdown that reaches its final climax with frenziedhand-to-hand combat in the Oval Office itself.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781439134030 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1439134030 |
| Author: | Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. |
| Publisher: | Baen Books |
| Imprint: | Baen Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 26 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 104mm x 170mm |
| Series: | Tau Ceti Agenda |
| Audience Age: | 16 |
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