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In E.β€―E. Knight’s "Tale of the Thunderbolt," the Resistance struggles against a vampiric alien regime. Elite Cat force agent David Valentine embarks on a perilous journey to locate a lost weapon that could end the Kurian Order's domination of Earth.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Science Fiction/Military Science Fiction
Authors: E. E. Knight
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