{"product_id":"fire-with-fire-9781451638837","title":"Fire with Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEBULA 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67929992036405,"sku":"ByrdShop_1451638833","price":65.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781451638837.jpg?v=1794202691","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/fire-with-fire-9781451638837","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}