Last Flight of the Acheron
ANOTHER TALE OF THE WAR AGAINST THE TAHNI BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BEST-SELLING MILITARY SF THRILLER GLORY BOY!Sandi and Ash never set out to be heroes.She joined the Commonwealth Space Fleet to please her mother, a high-ranking military officer; he joined as an escape from the crushing poverty and crime of the Trans-Angeles Public Housing Blocks, and the unlikely friends envisioned boring, peacetime careers as shuttle pilots.The Tahni Imperium had other ideas...Caught in the desperate fury of the Battle for Mars, the two young pilots wind up the last defense against an alien armada, but their war is just beginning. Recruited to fly the Fleet's newest weapon in this new war, they take the fight deep into the heart of the Imperium and battle not just against the enemy but against incompetent leadership and ineffectual tactics.Can the unconventional strategies of a pair of hotshot young pilots change the course of the war?And when the time comes that a choice has to be made between duty to command and loyalty to a friend, which of the two will be willing to make one last flight alone...