Into The Maelstrom

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NTRY 2 IN CITIZEN SERIES SEQUEL TO INTO THE HINTERLANDS Science fiction adventure on the frontier realms of empire written by biological scientist Dr John Lambshead & nationally best-selling David Drake THE RIGHT MAN FOR A VERY BAD JOBThe Cutter Stream colonies were at peace If everybody behaved reasonably that peace could last a thousand years Allen Allenson had known war; it had made him peaceful & reasonable He was far too experienced to believe the same was true of all his fellow colonists however let alone the government of the distant homeworld across the Bight War was coming a war that the colonies had to win if they were ever to be more than prison camps & a dumping ground for incompetent noblemen The experience that had caused Allenson to hate war made him the only man who could lead the colonial army Allenson knew that he wasn&t really a general but he understood his fellow colonists better than any homeworld general could He would free the Cutter Stream or he would die trying What Allen Allenson would not do what he would never do was quit Meet the Author David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted He served the next two years in the Army spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th armored Cavalry in Viet Nam & Cambodia Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke & was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill North Carolina He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981 His books include the genre-defining & bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series the nationally bestselling RCN series including In the Stormy Red Sky The Road of Danger The Sea without a Shore & with John Lambshead Citizen series entries Into the Hinterlands & Into the Maelstrom Dr John Lambshead is a retired senior research scientist in marine biodiversity at the Natural History Museum London He is also the Visiting Chair at Southampton University Oceanography & Regent’s Lecturer University of California He writes military history & designs computer & fantasy games He is the author of swashbuckling fantasy Lucy’s Blade contemporary urban fantasy Wolf in Shadow & coauthor with nationally best-selling author David Drake of science fiction adventures Into the Hinterlands & Into the Maelstrom