Publisher's Synopsis
DANIEL LEARY IS CINNABAR'S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPACE CAPTAIN; HIS FRIEND, LADYADELE MUNDY, IS ITS MOST EFFICIENT SPY--BUT THEY'VE GOT THEIR HANDS FULL THISTIME AS THEY FACE: A Cinnabar Senator furious at losing anelection-and still powerful enough to make her anger deadly. Theboy ruler of a star cluster who thinks he's a god-and who can sign thedeath warrants of even Cinnabar officials if a mad whimsy tells him to. Aworld of slaves and escaped slaves, where the most savage beasts in the jungleused to be human. An enemy base that could shrug off attack by powerfulbattlefleets-but which must fall to a single cruiser if Cinnabar is tosurvive. From palace to reeking jungle, from gunfights in grimy hangars to theflagship's bridge during a sprawling space battle, Leary and Mundy are in thethick of it again. Watch the galaxy explode-IN THE STORMY REDSKY
