What Distant Deeps

Captain Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy, have been in thefront lines of Cinnabar's struggle against the totalitarian Alliance. Now these

galactic superpowers have signed a peace of mutual exhaustion... but the jackals

are moving in! The Republic of Cinnabar was on the verge of collapse under the

weight of taxes, casualties, and war's disruption of trade. That the Alliance of

Free Stars was in even worse condition helped only because it has made peace

possible. Years of war have been hard on Daniel and harder still on Adele, whose

life outside information-gathering is a tightrope between despair and deadly

violence. Their masters in the RCN and the Republic's intelligence service have

sent them to the fringes of human space to relax away from danger. But the

barbarians of the outer reaches have their own plans, plans which will bring

down both Cinnabar and the Alliance. Unless Daniel, Adele, and their unlikely

allies succeed, galactic civilization will disintegrate into blood and chaos. So

they will succeed — or they'll die trying!