A war his people couldn't win took everything from him ? except revenge.
Mose and his team are all that stand between his colony and the Terrans. He sends the Osk spies and assassins where they can do the most damage to the superior Terran forces.
Then an awful new Terran weapon wipes his colony off the map.
Mose awakes a prisoner, bound to the enemy by the tech that sustains him. They offer him a brutal choice: die, or hunt down his old teammates to stay alive.
He agrees for one reason. Before the Terran attack, the Osk were betrayed by one of their own.
And he's the only person who knows the truth.
Following the traitor's trail to a powerful Terran world, Mose learns his target is about to commit an act of terrorism that will repeat history.
If Mose can't stop him, millions of people will die?again.
Absence of Blade is a thrilling space opera perfect for fans of J.N. Chaney, Rick Partlow, and Joshua James. If you like fast-paced sci-fi with gripping plots and unforgettable characters, you'll love Absence of Blade.
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Caitlin Demaris McKenna is a freelance editor and writes about future technologies and faraway worlds. She has visited three continents, and lived in Vancouver and New York. She grew up in the Minnesota woods, where on clear winter nights, she would look up at the stars and wonder.
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The war should have ended years ago.
Professional assassin Gau Shesharrim wants to retire. But as his desperate colony's best operative against the superior Terran forces, retirement is easier said than done.
For six years, Terrans and Osk have fought for control of the barely habitable planet Olios 3. The Terrans should have won easily: their Expansion fleet outclasses the Osk in ships, weaponry, technology. Operatives like Gau have held the line through espionage, sabotage, and assassinations, but every failed mission brings them closer to defeat.
Gau's commanding officers are gambling his life on one more mission. If he can assassinate General Shanazkowitz, leader of the Terran forces, it might turn the tide.
The bitter, war-weary Gau accepts the assignment with one hope in mind: that it will end the conflict.
But what Gau discovers on the mission could be his colony's doom.
Absence of Blade is the first volume in the Expansion space opera series, a sci-fi epic that reads like a thriller.