By David Weber
#18 within the multiply-bestselling Honor Harrington series.
Wrong quantity? There are facets to any quarrel . . . until there are more.
Michelle Henke, Queen Elizabeth of Manticore's first cousin, Honor Harrington's ally, and the commanding officer of Manticore's 10th Fleet, is simply a section stunned whilst a messenger arrives from the Mobius process to notify her that the Mobius Liberation entrance is ready to upward push in uprising opposed to the hated regime President Svein Lombroso. she will be able to comprehend why anyone would need to insurgent opposed to somebody like Lombroso, yet why inform her approximately it? in any case, she has difficulties of her personal, just like the minor subject of a life-or-death struggle opposed to the Solarian League.
Michelle has simply passed the "invincible" Solarian League army the main humiliating, one-sided defeat in its whole virtually thousand-year background in protection of the folks of the famous person Empire's Talbott Quadrant. however the League is the main strong famous person country within the background of humanity. Its military goes to be again – and this time with millions of superdreadnoughts.
but she additionally is familiar with rankings of alternative celebrity platforms — a few self reliant, a few managed through puppet regimes, and a few easily conquered outright by means of the Solarian workplace of Frontier safety — lie within the League's grip alongside its frontier with the Talbott Quadrant. As wrestle spreads from the preliminary war of words, the whole frontier has started to seethe with unrest, and Michelle sympathizes with the oppressed populations in need of in simple terms to be freed from their hated masters.
And that places her in anything of a main issue whilst the messenger from Mobius arrives, simply because someone's evidently gotten a flawed quantity. based on him, the Mobians’ rebellion has been rigorously deliberate to coordinate with a robust outdoors best friend: the big name Empire of Manticore. in basic terms Manticore — and Mike Henke — have by no means even heard of the Mobius Liberation Front.
It's a set-up . . . and Michelle is aware who's in the back of it. The shadowy Mesan Alignment has introduced a daring stream to wreck Manticore's acceptance because the champion of freedom. And whilst the RMN doesn't arrive, while the MLF is brutally and bloodily beaten, no self reliant superstar method will ever belief Manticore again.
Mike Henke understands she has no orders from her executive to aid any rebellions or liberation pursuits, that she has purely such a lot of ships, that are in just such a lot of areas at a time . . . and that she can't in all likelihood justify diverting any of her restricted, outnumbered power to missions of liberation the superstar Empire by no means signed on for.
She is aware that . . . and he or she doesn't care.
nobody goes to ship millions of patriots to their deaths, trusting in Manticoran aid that would by no means come.
no longer on Mike Henke's watch.
About Mission of Honor, #13 within the Honor Harrington sequence:
“Weber combines lifelike, enticing characters with clever technological projection and a deep realizing of army paperwork during this long-awaited Honor Harrington novel…Fans of this venerable house opera will have fun to work out Honor again in action.”–Publishers Weekly
“This newest Honor Harrington novel brings the saga to a different an important turning point…Readers may possibly consider convinced that they are going to be commemorated many extra instances and luxuriate in it each time.”–Booklist
About David Weber and the honour Harrington sequence:
“. . .everything you'll wish in a heroine …. first-class … lots of action.”–Science Fiction Age
“Brilliant! fantastic! Brilliant!”–Anne McCaffrey
“Compelling wrestle mixed with enticing characters for an exceptional area opera adventure.”–Locus
“Weber combines reasonable, enticing characters with clever technological projection . . . fanatics of this venerable area opera will celebrate . . .”–Publishers Weekly
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