On Basilisk Station
INTRODUCING
HONOR HARRINGTON
Having made him look a fool, she's been exiled to
Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates
her.
Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's
humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.
The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are
smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.
Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the
major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head;
the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up To
Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser
with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system.
But the people out to get her have made one mistake.
They've made her mad.
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