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In "Deep Space," humanity, after fending off the Sh'daar assault, enjoys twenty years of uneasy peace. Former Navy commander Alexander Koenig, now president of the United States of North America, must confront a new Sh'daar ambush on a Confederation vessel and a colony under attack. The Sh'daar appear to have betrayed their treaty, forcing a united human response to prevent certain death.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Science Fiction/Military Science Fiction
Authors: Ian Douglas
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