{"product_id":"the-tranquility-wars-bantam-spectra-book","title":"The Tranquility Wars (Bantam Spectra Book)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the New York Times bestselling novelist Gentry Lee  author of Bright Messengers and Double Full Moon Night  as well as co-author with Arthur C. Clarke of the Rama series  comes a thrilling new novel of suspense  love  and adventure set against a grand galactic backdrop. Here is the story of a young student  a dangerous love affair  and an explosive conflict to establish control over humanity.  The Tranquility Wars  For young Hunter Blake  the future is bright indeed. He has been awarded the exclusive Covington Fellowship  named for the totalitarian ruler of the FISC (Federation of Independent Space Colonies)  bringing with it fame  a generous stipend  and assured success in his chosen profession.  In addition  after years of separation he has been reunited with the one woman he ever loved  the beautiful and enthralling Tehani Wilawa. She has come back into his life  offering her love with one proviso--that he accept her profession as the most beautiful paid escort in the FISCs most famous pleasure palace  Sybaris.  But as tension mounts between the FISC and its neighbor and rival  the UDSC (United Democratic Space Colonies)  bands of renegade space pirates begin to take advantage of the growing hostilities between the two contending federations--raiding  looting  kidnapping  and building their ranks from the disaffected of both space powers.And when Hunter and Tehani are kidnapped by a pirate band  the aptly named Utopians  they find themselves forced to choose between the enticing ideals of their captors and the rigid conformity and shallow satisfactions of life in the FISC. They suddenly find themselves questioning \"truths\" theyve accepted all their lives. Are these space pirates really the avatars of a new freedom  as they claim--or simply criminals? To answer  Hunter and Tehani must quickly learn the razor-thin difference between freedom and anarchy  obedience and slavery  pleasure and indulgence.  But of even greater consequence  Hunter finds his reputation unexpectedly compromised when he becomes an outlaw in his old world as a result of his activities with the space pirates. Separated from Tehani by his own acts of revolution  Hunter faces a countdown with destiny itself as events spiral toward a crucial climax that will explode in the Tranquility Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966244417589,"sku":"ByrdShop_0553090089","price":62.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780553090086.jpg?v=1770558391","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-tranquility-wars-bantam-spectra-book","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}