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THE SILENT WAR
BOOK THREE OF
THE ASTEROID WARS

When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resources of the Asteroid Belt itself. As fighting escalates, the lines between commerce and politics, boardroom and bedroom, blur--and the keys to victory will include physics, nanotechnology, and cold, hard cash.
As they fight it out, the lives of thousands of innocents hang in the balance, including the rock rats, who make their living off the asteroids, and the inhabitants of Selene City on Earth's moon. As if matters weren't complicated enough, the shadowy Yamagata corporation sets its sights on taking advantage of other people's quarrels, and space pirate Lars Fuchs decides it's time to make good on his own personal vendetta....
It's a breakneck finale that can end only in earth's salvation--or the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space.




THE
SILENT WAR
Book III of The Asteroid Wars



BEN BOVA




TOR
TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK
NEW YORK
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
THE SILENT WAR: BOOK III OF THE ASTEROID WARS
Copyright й 2004 by Ben Bova
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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New York, NY 10010
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Torо is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bova, Ben, 1932-
The silent war / Ben Bova.--1st ed.
p. cm.--(The asteroid wars ; bk. 3) "A Tom Doherty Associates book." ISBN 0-312-84878-1 (alk. paper) EAN 978-0312-84878-1
1. Mines and mineral resources--Fiction. 2. Space colonies--Fiction. 3. Space warfare--Fiction. 4. Asteroids--Fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.O84S55 2004 813'.54--dc22
2003071145
First Edition: May 2004
Printed in the United States of America
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