The Coalition Man
by Alec Saracen
2017
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"But that's treason!"
"No," Zhai said, "that's politics, though I grant you, there's a fine line between them..."
In the wake of an explosive interstellar war, veteran diplomat Gumeigo Zhai is given one last mission: guiding the planet Tor to independence amid galactic upheaval.
A hard job gets harder when a rival delegation bent on annexing Tor arrives, posing a formidable - and deadly - threat to Zhai's skeleton staff. Worse still, the notorious cybernetically enhanced Liberators are inciting revolution, half the Torian government is plotting coups against the other half, and a devastating civil war is imminent.
As Tor slides into chaos, Zhai must survive a whirlwind of conspiracies and assassins, but the present isn't as dangerous as the past - and Zhai's past is darker than most.
In the face of shattering revelations, Zhai is forced to question everything - even where his loyalties truly lie...
John le Carré meets Battlestar Galactica in this propulsive sci-fi political thriller.
"No," Zhai said, "that's politics, though I grant you, there's a fine line between them..."
In the wake of an explosive interstellar war, veteran diplomat Gumeigo Zhai is given one last mission: guiding the planet Tor to independence amid galactic upheaval.
A hard job gets harder when a rival delegation bent on annexing Tor arrives, posing a formidable - and deadly - threat to Zhai's skeleton staff. Worse still, the notorious cybernetically enhanced Liberators are inciting revolution, half the Torian government is plotting coups against the other half, and a devastating civil war is imminent.
As Tor slides into chaos, Zhai must survive a whirlwind of conspiracies and assassins, but the present isn't as dangerous as the past - and Zhai's past is darker than most.
In the face of shattering revelations, Zhai is forced to question everything - even where his loyalties truly lie...
John le Carré meets Battlestar Galactica in this propulsive sci-fi political thriller.
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