An Honorable Defense (Crisis of Empire, No 1)

Politics and Politicians have been unchanged in all of our history and look to remain that way throughout our foreseeable future. Power and greed are the main motivating factors for most of them and the majority could care less for we little folk. Such is the case with this book. The top mooga-mooga has met with a permanent early retirement and burial and all of the offal described above are vying for either the deceased one's seat or a position high enough to lord it over others. There are some loyal citizens - just as there are today - who want what is right for their Pact....and not all of them are human. Adventure, combat, intrigue, backstabbing and marvelous mental pictures await you as David Drake has once more gifted us with a very good book - as only a master author can. gmb 1-16-20 The first Crisis of Empire begins with the death of the Emperor, leaving a child as his successor. Will the leaders of the empire rally behind the child-Emperor? If they do not, interstellar civilization will once again dissolve into civil war and slide into another long night of barbarism. Original.