With the Lightnings

By Drake, David

Book Id: WPLBN0000625325
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Reproduction Date: 2004

Title:	With the Lightnings
Author:	Drake, David
Volume:	Lt. Leary/RCN Series
Language:	English
Subject:	Science fiction, Fantasy & science fiction, Pulp literature
Collections:	Science Fiction Collection, Baen Library Collection
Historic Publication Date:	2000
Publisher:	Baen Publishing Enterprises


Citation APA MLA Chicago Drake, B. D. (2000). With the Lightnings. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Description: Daniel Leary is a lieutenant in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy with no money and no prospects since he quarreled with his ruthless, politically powerful father. Adele Mundy is a scholar with no money and no prospects since her family was massacred for conspiring against the Government of Cinnabar. Kostroma is a wealthy planet which depends on diplomacy to stay independent in a galaxy whose two great powers, Cinnabar and the Alliance, battle for supremacy. In a few hours, diplomacy is going to fail Kostroma. Daniel, Adele, and the scratch crew they gather aren't much to stand in the way of a powerful invasion fleet, but just possibly they're enough.

Excerpt
Excerpt: Boy meets girl ? Daniel closed the metal covers of the book, then looked directly at Adele. ?i don?t mean to intrude in another citizen?s business, mistress,? he said, ?but my manservant hogg is very good at finding people who can change things. If you?d like him to locate some carpenters?? Excerpt: Daniel closed the metal covers of the book, then looked directly at Adele. "I don't mean to intrude in another citizen's business, mistress," he said, "but my manservant Hogg is very good at finding people who can change things. If you'd like him to locate some carpenters . . . ?" Adele snorted. The library budget, if there was one, wasn't under her control. "I appreciate the offer," she said, "but I regret that I'm not in a position to take advantage of it. Unless your man could find the carpenters' wages as well as the carpenters themselves." Leary grinned, but there was a serious undertone in his voice as he said, "I really don't dare suggest that, mistress. While I don't think Hogg would be caught, I'm afraid his methods would bring spiritual discredit on a Leary of Bantry. What Hogg does on his own account is his own business, but if I set him a task . . ." The world had gone gray around Adele. "You said, `a Leary of Bantry,' sir," she said. Her voice too was without color. "You'd be related to SpeakrLeary, then?" Leary grimaced. "Oh, yes," he said. "Corder Leary is my father, though we'd both be willing to deny it."