David Weber

The Shadow of Saganami (Honorverse Series) David Weber Library edition

The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami Island, the Royal Manticoran Navy?s academy, are going straight from the classroom to the blazing reality of all-out war ? except for the midshipmen assigned to the heavy cruiser HMS Hexapuma, that is. They?re being assigned to the Talbott Cluster, a backwater far from the battle front. With a captain who may have seen too much of war and a station commander who isn?t precisely noted for his brilliant and insightful command style, it isn?t exactly what the students of Honor Harrington expected. But things aren?t as simple ? or tranquil ? as they appear. Pirates, terrorists, genetic slavers, smuggled weapons, long-standing personal hatreds, and a vicious alliance of corporate greed, bureaucratic arrogance, and a corrupt local star nation with a powerful fleet, are all coming together, and only Hexapuma, her war-weary captain, and Honor Harrington?s students stand in the path. They have only one thing to support and guide them: the tradition of Saganami. The tradition that sometimes a Queen?s officer?s duty is to face impossible odds . . . and die fighting.