Someone destroys the system's ansibles (instantaneous communicators), so Kylara can't contact her father for funds or advice. During the voyage, though, the ship's star drive goes down, and the crew arrives on the brink of a war between Sabine Prime and Secundus. She's reluctant to scrap a serviceable vessel-but how to obtain the huge sums necessary to pay for upgrades and repairs? Planet Belinta needs agricultural machinery and will pay well to get it and said machinery is available in the Sabine system. Ky, however, will have the assistance of the doughty, tough, and experienced Quincy Robin as crew chief and Gary Tobin as loadmaster.
There are, of course, drawbacks: the ship is creaky and superannuated, destined to be sold for scrap. Rather surprisingly, Gerard, CFO of the huge and powerful spacegoing Vatta Transport, gives Ky the captaincy of a ship. Drummed out of planet Slotter Key's space academy for helping a colleague who then betrayed her, Kylara Vatta returns home to face her father. 2003), the kickoff to a new spacefaring/coming-of-age saga. Fast-paced and compelling - SF REVIEWS I thoroughly adored Trading in Danger and wholeheartedly recommend it - THE BOOK SMUGGLERSįrom the versatile author of military-SF yarns and, most recently, The Speed of Dark (Jan.
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