The Dark Crusade

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Macmillan, 2005 - Fiction - 432 pages
The Dark Path introduced a new alien force into the delicate balance of power ... one that was the actual puppetmaster of the human-zor war and now wishes to bring both worlds under its madness inducing shadow while The Dark Ascent brought into focus a secret conspiracy that is disrupting the balance of power on both a military and metaphysical level.
But the same ancient philosophy of the zor race that prophesized "the Dark Wing" has also foreseen a hero that will meet the new menace - a hero now mystically embodied in a rebellious space commodore by the name of Jackie Lappierre.

Now in The Dark Crusade as armadas clash and outposts fall, the overly confident alien menace is forced to confront a zor human alliance that has been warned, their covert and insidious plans of infiltration now exposed ... but all is not as it seems to be. The "vuhl menace" may not be the ultimate enemy, and the all-powerful puppetmasters that have lurked in the shadows have entered the endgame where the mysteries of alien prophecies may have already determined the outcome.

Though victory is hardly ascertained for either side in The Dark Crusade in a page turning and thought provoking climax that will forever alter the fate of sentient life in the galaxy.
 

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Contents

Section 1
13
Section 2
19
Section 3
33
Section 4
42
Section 5
48
Section 6
61
Section 7
77
Section 8
94
Section 18
227
Section 19
240
Section 20
261
Section 21
271
Section 22
280
Section 23
293
Section 24
308
Section 25
319

Section 9
106
Section 10
119
Section 11
131
Section 12
145
Section 13
159
Section 14
177
Section 15
187
Section 16
197
Section 17
218
Section 26
332
Section 27
343
Section 28
355
Section 29
368
Section 30
394
Section 31
422
Section 32
430
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Walter H. Hunt has nearly twenty years experience in high tech as a software engineer and technical writer. His writing reflects an abiding interest in history, his area of college study, but science fiction has been his favorite reading material since he watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon when he was but a lad. He is an active freemason and a lifelong baseball fan. He lives in eastern Massachusetts with his wife and daughter. The Dark Crusade is his third novel.

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