Fire with Fire

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NEBULA AWARD NOMINEE. Original trade paperback. New Science Fiction Thriller Series! An agent for a spy organization uncovers an alien alliance in nearby interstellar spacean alliance that will soon involve humanity in politics and war on a galactic scale. 2105 September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earths Moona history-changing clandestine projectand ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later Riordan awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. And now Riordan is compelled to become an inadvertent agent of conspiracy himself. Riordans mission: travel to a newly settled world and investigate whether a primitive local species was once sentientenough so to have built a lost civilization. However arriving on site in the Delta Pavonis system Caine discovers that the job hes been given is anything but secret or safe. With assassins and saboteurs dogging his every step its clear that someone doesnt want his mission to succeed. In the end it takes the broad-based insights of an intelligence analyst and a matching instinct for intrigue to ferret out the truth: that humanity is neither alone in the cosmos nor safe. Earth is revealed to be the lynchpin planet in an impending struggle for interstellar dominance a struggle into which it is being irresistibly dragged. Discovering new dangers at every turn Riordan must now convince the powers-that-be that the only way for humanity to survive as a free species is to face the perils directlyand to fight fire with fire. About Fire with Fire: Chuck Gannon is one of those marvelous findssomeone as comfortable with characters as he is with technology and equally adept at providing those characters with problems to solve. Imaginative fun and not afraid to step on the occasional toe or gore the occasional sacred cow his stories do not disappoint.David Weber "If we meet strong aliens out there will we suffer the fate of the Aztecs and Incas or find the agility to survive? Gannon fizzes with ideas about the dangerous politics of first contact.David Brin "The plot is intriguing and then some. Well-developed and self-consistent; intelligent readers are going to like it."Jerry Pournelle "The intersecting plot threads action and well-conceived science kept those pages turning."SF Crowsnest About Starfire series hit Extremis coauthored by Charles E. Gannon: Vivid. . . Battle sequences mingle with thought-provoking exegesis . . .Publishers Weekly "Its a grand fun series of battles and campaigns worthy of anything Dale Brown or Larry Bond ever wrote." Analog About Charles E. Gannon: "A strong writer of. . .military SF. . .much action going on in his work with a lot of physics behind it. There is a real sense of the urgency of war and the sacrifices it demands." Locus