L. E. Modesitt Jr. - The Ethos Effect
L. E. Modesitt Jr. - The Ethos Effect
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction | ISBN: 0765347121 | 2004 | EPUB/MOBI | 544 pages | 542 KB/727 KB
The story of Commander Van Albert of the Taran republic makes a quite entertaining sermon. Once indirectly responsible for the loss of a civilian liner in a battle in which he defeated a larger enemy ship, he was cleared by a board of inquiry but still has nightmares, and his superiors no longer trust him. Is that the only reason why, after he is seriously injured in preventing an assassination, he is promoted with honors and retired? Anyway, he signs on with a small foundation that turns out to possess many hidden assets. In the meantime, an uneasy interstellar situation turns into a military, economic, and, worst of all, theocratic war, and its aftermath is worse, with changes from tyranny to anarchy in some systems, from independence to tyranny in others. Van Albert must move quickly to preserve the foundation's independence and his life. Modesitt knows well how to keep this kind of soup at a boil.