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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780345447579
ISBN number: 0345447573
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 416
Printing Date: January 30, 2007
Publishing house: Del Rey
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 45787
Studio: Del Rey
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For fans of fast-paced adventure and compelling characters, the military science fiction of Nebula Award—winning author Elizabeth Moon is the perfect choice.
The brilliantly unorthodox Kylara Vatta, black-sheep scion of Vatta Transport Ltd., one of the galaxy’s wealthiest merchant houses, is a heroine like no other, blessed with a killer instinct for business and for battle. Now, in the aftermath of cold-blooded assassinations that have left her parents dead and the Vatta shipping empire shattered, Kylara faces her greatest challenge yet.
There is a time for grief and a time for revenge. This is decidedly the latter. Placing her cousin Stella in command of the trading vessel Gary Tobai, Ky embarks aboard the captured pirate ship Fair Kaleen on a twofold mission: to salvage the family business and to punish those responsible for the killings . . . before they strike again.
Since the network providing instantaneous communication between star systems has been sabotaged, news is hard to come by and available information impossible to trust. But as she travels from system to system, with Stella a step behind, Ky pieces together the clues and discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking audacity, and utter ruthlessness.
The only hope the independent systems and merchants have against this powerful enemy is to band together. Unfortunately, because she commands a ship known to belong to a notorious pirate–her own relative Osman Vatta, whom she killed for his part in her parents’ deaths–Ky is met with suspicion, if not outright hostility. Rumors swirl about her intent, her very identity. Soon even Stella begins to question her cousin’s decisions and her authority to make them.
Meanwhile, the conspiracy Ky hunts is hunting her in turn, with agents insinuated into every space station, every planetary government, every arm of the military, and every merchant house–including her own. Before she can take the fight to the enemy, Kylara must survive a deadly minefield of deception and betrayal.
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Kylara Vatta has had to leave a glowing future as a military cadet far behind, and now carves out a living in the brutal cut-throat world of interplanetary trading. Her chosen way of life is tough but rewarding and she thinks she is more than capable of holding her own. That is, until a threat emerges that nobody could have forseen ... {wwwlittlebrowncouk}
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I have been completely captivated by the books in this series. I think Moon does a good job writing characters that react in real and human ways. She resolved some incidents in rather unexpected ways, and gives her main characters real and human doubts, concerns, etc. As another reviewer said, do not read this book very first - make sure you start at the beginning or you will be confused - but the whole series is really worth reading.
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Much has been made of this book being the very first difficult read in the Vatta's War series. It is. The middle portion of the novel turns into something of a job. (In her charming acknowledgments, Moon self-deprecatingly thanked friends and family for curbing her tendencies to go into too much detail; unfortunately, one wishes she had curbed those tendencies even more.)
Happily, the last hundred pages turn things around significantly, thanks to the entertainment derived from one antagonist's intriguing accusations (and his fate) followed swiftly by an excellent space battle. So, if you're slogging through the middle of "Engaging the Enemy," have heart that the "job" becomes pleasure at the end--and reviews have been kinder to book four.
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As others have noted, this is a middle volume of a series. However, I can't be as kind. I find the most of the characters' emotions and motivations in this volume unconvincing. The plot is boring and lame too. I enjoyed "Trading in Danger" and "Marque and Reprisal," but this volume stunk.
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Elizabeth Moon is a self-hating fishbelly.
If you can overlook that trite PC episode -- which I almost couldn't -- you will find this book on balance enjoyable.
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