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Privateers

The Grand Tour seriesbook 2 of 21Next:Empire Builders(1993) →

America has ceded the heavens to the tyrants — and the renegades. The U.S. has abandoned its quest for the stars, and old enemy, Soviets, moved in to fill the void. The potential wealth of the universe is now in malevolent army hands.

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Rebel billionaire Dan Randolph, possessor of the largest privately owned company in space, intends to weaken the stranglehold the new despotic masters of the solar system have on the lucrative ore industry. But when the mineral-rich asteroid he sets in orbit around the Earth is commandeered by the enemy, and his unarmed workers are slaughtered in cold blood, the course of Randolph's life is changed forever.

Now cataclysm is aimed at the exposed heart of America — a potential catastrophe that Randolph himself inadvertently set in motion. The maverick entrepreneur must use his skills, cunning, and vast resources to strike out at his foes hard, fast, with ruthless precision — and wear proudly the mantle that fate thrust upon him — space pirate.

Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
long · 400 pages

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