Shadow Run - Chapter 1
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Someone is trying to kill Susan Tanner.
A Federation Fleet captain, she had not commended a ship since losing Defiant ten years ago during a colony’s bloody rebellion. Although vindicated at her court-martial, she still blames herself. Since then she has been Admiral Renford’s personal security operative, a job for which she is eminently qualified because of her super-strong prosthetics and martial arts training.
Now, again, Susan is given the opportunity to pilot a ship. The civilian Survey Service wants her for a job.
Are her attackers stalking her because of Defiant’s loss, trying to kill her as payment for the deaths of its crew? Or are they somehow connected with her new assignment?
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