Engaging the Enemy

Elizabeth Moon

Random House Publishing Group, Mar 28, 2006 - Fiction - 416 pages

For fans of fast-paced adventure and compelling characters, the military science fiction of Nebula Award—winning author Elizabeth Moon is the perfect choice.

The brilliantly unorthodox Kylara Vatta, black-sheep scion of Vatta Transport Ltd., one of the galaxy’s wealthiest merchant houses, is a heroine like no other, blessed with a killer instinct for business and for battle. Now, in the aftermath of cold-blooded assassinations that have left her parents dead and the Vatta shipping empire shattered, Kylara faces her greatest challenge yet.

There is a time for grief and a time for revenge. This is decidedly the latter. Placing her cousin Stella in command of the trading vessel Gary Tobai, Ky embarks aboard the captured pirate ship Fair Kaleen on a twofold mission: to salvage the family business and to punish those responsible for the killings . . . before they strike again.

Since the network providing instantaneous communication between star systems has been sabotaged, news is hard to come by and available information impossible to trust. But as she travels from system to system, with Stella a step behind, Ky pieces together the clues and discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking audacity, and utter ruthlessness.

The only hope the independent systems and merchants have against this powerful enemy is to band together. Unfortunately, because she commands a ship known to belong to a notorious pirate–her own relative Osman Vatta, whom she killed for his part in her parents’ deaths–Ky is met with suspicion, if not outright hostility. Rumors swirl about her intent, her very identity. Soon even Stella begins to question her cousin’s decisions and her authority to make them.

Meanwhile, the conspiracy Ky hunts is hunting her in turn, with agents insinuated into every space station, every planetary government, every arm of the military, and every merchant house–including her own. Before she can take the fight to the enemy, Kylara must survive a deadly minefield of deception and betrayal.


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What people are saying

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User Review  - Fearshop - LibraryThing

Love this entry in the Vatta War series. Wish I would of discovered this series years ago. If your looking for non-stop action this is not for you.

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User Review  - Cheryl_in_CC_NV - LibraryThing

Honestly, I'm confused by how much I like this series. Let me reiterate - I don't like intrigue, adventure, stories that are so long you need a whole series to tell them, military situations... but ...

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 3
• Section 3: 20
• Section 4: 36
• Section 5: 52
• Section 6: 65
• Section 7: 79
• Section 8: 95
• Section 9: 112
• Section 10: 130
• Section 11: 151
• Section 12: 168
• Section 13: 184
• Section 14: 202
• Section 15: 217
• Section 16: 233
• Section 17: 251
• Section 18: 265
• Section 19: 281
• Section 20: 298
• Section 21: 315
• Section 22: 332
• Section 23: 347
• Section 24: 364
• Section 25: 378
• Section 26: 394

About the author

Elizabeth Moon grew up on the Texas border, served three years of active duty in the USMC (1968–71), and now lives with her husband, also a veteran, near Austin, Texas. She has published more than twenty-five novels, including Nebula Award winner The Speed of Dark, Hugo finalist Remnant Population, and the enduring epic fantasy series The Chronicles of Paksenarrion. She has published more than fifty short-fiction pieces in anthologies and magazines and in four of her own short-fiction collections, most recently Moon Flights and Deeds of Honor. When not writing, Moon enjoys photographing native plants and wildlife, knitting socks, and cooking.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Engaging the Enemy; Volume 3 of Vatta's War
• Author: Elizabeth Moon
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2006
• ISBN: 0345491009, 9780345491008
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Science Fiction / Military; Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera