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Privateers - Ben Bova

By Ben Bova

Release Date: 2011-04-01

Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi

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In this "riveting account of the future," America has ceded the heavens to the tyrants and the renegadesā€”from the six-time Hugo Awardā€“winning author (Wall Street Journal).
The US has abandoned its quest for the stars, and an old enemy has moved in to fill the void. The potential wealth of the universe is now in malevolent hands. Rebel billionaire Dan Randolphā€”possessor of the largest privately-owned company in spaceā€”intends to weaken the stranglehold the new despotic masters of the solar system have on the lucrative ore industry. But when the mineral-rich asteroid he sets in orbit around the Earth is commandeered by the enemy, and his unarmed workers are slaughtered in cold blood, the course of Randolph's life is changed forever.
Now cataclysm is aimed at the exposed heart of Americaā€”a potential catastrophe that Randolph himself inadvertently set in motion. And the maverick entrepreneur must use his skills, cunning, and vast resources to strike out at his foes hard, fast and with ruthless precisionā€”and wear proudly the mantle that fate thrust upon him: space pirate!
"Swashbuckling action, a likeableā€”if machoā€”hero, and a down-to-the-wire plot." ā€”Library Journal
"A solid, well-plotted tale that maintains a pleasing balance and tension between the politicking, the romancing, and the action-adventure. One of Bova's best." ā€”Kirkus Reviews

Privateers - Ben Bova

By Ben Bova

Release Date: 2011-04-01

Genre: Adventure Sci-Fi

(0 ratings)
Read Download
In this "riveting account of the future," America has ceded the heavens to the tyrants and the renegadesā€”from the six-time Hugo Awardā€“winning author (Wall Street Journal).
The US has abandoned its quest for the stars, and an old enemy has moved in to fill the void. The potential wealth of the universe is now in malevolent hands. Rebel billionaire Dan Randolphā€”possessor of the largest privately-owned company in spaceā€”intends to weaken the stranglehold the new despotic masters of the solar system have on the lucrative ore industry. But when the mineral-rich asteroid he sets in orbit around the Earth is commandeered by the enemy, and his unarmed workers are slaughtered in cold blood, the course of Randolph's life is changed forever.
Now cataclysm is aimed at the exposed heart of Americaā€”a potential catastrophe that Randolph himself inadvertently set in motion. And the maverick entrepreneur must use his skills, cunning, and vast resources to strike out at his foes hard, fast and with ruthless precisionā€”and wear proudly the mantle that fate thrust upon him: space pirate!
"Swashbuckling action, a likeableā€”if machoā€”hero, and a down-to-the-wire plot." ā€”Library Journal
"A solid, well-plotted tale that maintains a pleasing balance and tension between the politicking, the romancing, and the action-adventure. One of Bova's best." ā€”Kirkus Reviews

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