Counterfeit Stars--Agents of ISIS, Book 8 E-Book

Stephen Goldin

• Herausgeber: Stephen Goldin
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Welcome to the first great space opera decalogy of the twenty-first century! Agents of ISIS is the 21st century re-envisioning of the Family d'Alembert series by its original author, an epic saga describing the fight to preserve humanity from the forces of chaos and destruction. Having had its plans thwarted too many times by the Imperial Special Investigation Service, the evil conspiracy declares war directly on the brave men and women who serve in the agency. Impostors sabotage the Service's work, and the Commissar himself falls under suspicion. ISIS must confront itself to prevent being torn apart from within.

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Agents Of ISIS: Book 8

COUNTERFEIT STARS

Stephen Goldin

Counterfeit Stars. Copyright 2010 by Stephen Goldin. All Rights Reserved.

Cover photo courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

dedicated to

Alan E. Nourse

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The War Against ISIS

Chapter 2: Deadly Doubles

Chapter 3: The Trail to C

Chapter 4: The Arrest of Knyaz Nkosi

Chapter 5: Live Bait

Chapter 6: Hasina’s Escape

Chapter 7: Revelation

Chapter 8: Kyrby Again

Chapter 9: Battlestation G-6

Chapter 10: New Ally, Old Adversary

Chapter 11: Turnabout

Chapter 12: The Talking Asteroid

Chapter 13: Escape Ship

Chapter 14: Conversation with a Ghost

A Reader’s Guide to the Empire

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Runglish Words and Phrases

The Use of Yiddish in This Series

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Chapter 1: The War Against ISIS

Being summoned,to Lady A’s office was never a casual matter. Marya Kuznyetza had to pass an ID and weapons checkpoint before she was even allowed into the gravtube taking her down to the lowest basement level. There she passed a human-supervised iriscope check and a weapons detector scan. Then she had to walk alone down a brightly lit L-shaped corridor with cameras watching her every step of the way. The walls were gray and completely bare except for the innocuous-looking small projections she assumed were beamers pointed directly at her.

As she turned right at the far end of the hallway she came abruptly to the heavy gray magnisteel door that was the final barrier to Lady A’s office. There were some people—ones who’d made serious mistakes on their assignments—who had gone through this door and never been seen again, though admittedly such cases were rare. Lady A normally dealt with faulty subordinates in a more efficient manner, letting others on her staff do the dirty work. More often a visit to Lady A meant a tongue-lashing for some slip-up, some operation that went less smoothly than planned even if it was ultimately successful. Most of Lady A’s plans did go smoothly, but she was a perfectionist and didn’t tolerate even minor faults in her hirelings.

Even at best, being called to this office merely meant another hard, demanding job from a taskmaster who was never satisfied. There was still much to do if the conspiracy was to topple the Sokolov dynasty from the imperial throne, and Lady A could never quite understand why her inferiors didn’t measure up to her own impeccable standards.