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In a world of pirates and murderous ghosts, one naval cadet must choose between loyalty and survival. In the Level's Naval Academy, officer candidate Silas Hunt stumbles across a secret that could get him hanged for treason. The only hope he has to save his own life and to find justice is to join up with a ruthless pirate captain, a woman known as Mad Dog-even if it means sacrificing everything he's spent his life working for. The Verity ...

Treason, loyalty, and revenge in the heart of deep space. Captain Hollis Ives has gone up against pirates before-specifically, against Captain Mad Dog, the pirates' de facto leader. So when Naval High Command orders an attack on the pirate stronghold, Hollis knows damn well this mission won't be as simple as the Commodore expects. And that's not all-there's someone from the Level, maybe in the navy itself, who wants her very dead. Former nava...

Two hundred human refugees are about to be slaughtered. There's an assassin on the loose. And an alien leadership war has just broken out, with humans at the centre of it. The day just keeps getting better ... Despite all odds, the rag-tag human diplomatic party, led by Chief Justice Alba Espina, has been rescued and granted asylum by the yibo government. But they're not in the clear yet-with yibo sentiment turning against humans, Alba will ha...

When the human and alien worlds collide, it's anyone's guess if there will be survivors. Chief Justice Alba Espina never expected to see her home system again. But the return of the diplomatic mission survivors to the Joias system may not be as peaceful as they'd hoped. Alba's political rival, General Cavaco, has used her absence to stoke citizens' fears and prejudices of an alien invasion - and he's gunning for a war that Alba knows he can't ...

They're trapped in the middle of an alien war-and their only hope of salvation is from the most unlikely of sources. With the survivors of the diplomatic ship finally safe, head diplomat and former Chief Justice Alba Espina can at last turn her attention to finding them a way home. Or so she thinks. And then the vicious raiders who hunt the edges of the alien system turn their sights on the alien capital, and once again, human lives are a po...

The Joias System-and all of humanity-is in deadly peril. The only way the motley group of human survivors, led by former diplomat Alba Espina, can prevent a massacre is to destroy the aliens' portal mechanism. But for a rag-tag party more skilled in diplomacy than demolition, stranded in an unfamiliar system, with both human and alien soldiers on their trail after their desperate escape from the aliens' capital-it seems like an impossible task...

Watching the hatching of a great tree-dwelling venomous tentacled land-devil has been field-scientist Aran Romeu's dream for as long as he can remember. And if land-devils are the most dangerous creatures known to humankind, and this whole thing might be a set-up from someone who wants to kill him, and there's a very good chance neither he nor his research assistant and best friend Istvay will come out of this alive ... well, he and Istvay hav...

They've made it behind the portal. Now they have to survive what they find on the other side ... After a disaster leaves their diplomatic ship destroyed and the ragged survivors numbering only dozens, Ambassador Alba Espina's mission goes from negotiating a political alliance with a previously uncontacted sapient species, to trying desperately to keep the tiny band of survivors alive in a hostile alien environment. Surviving first contact with...

It appears out of nowhere-one moment the sky is empty, the next, there's a rent in the fabric of space itself. And the System is about to change forever. In the far reaches of the Rim Mountains, itinerant field-scientist Aran Romeu is searching desperately for the cure to an incurable disease-one that's slowly killing his best friend. He's sworn to do whatever it takes to find it. But when a portal opens in the deep space at the edges of the...

The crew of the Ungovernable might have just gambled more than they can pay.Ex-smuggler pilot Jez and the crew of the Ungovernable desperately need is a way to stop the government killing them all. And they're running out of time. So when Grigory Korzhikov, the godfather of the biggest mafia organization in the System, invites them aboard his private gambling ship and tells them he can give them a way out, it's an offer they can't refuse. But ...

It's kill or be killed for the crew of the Ungovernable.With the mafia after their heads, ex-smuggler pilot Jez and the crew have two choices-run, or fight back. Problem is, there's nowhere in the System to run. So instead, they're going to take the entire crime syndicate down.But pulling a sting on the mafia-and living to tell the tale-is going to take a hell of a lot more than just good intentions. And when you can't even trust the people yo...

The entire Svodrani System is about to go up in flames-and the crew of the Ungovernable is sitting right in the centre of the explosion.After taking down the two most powerful mafia bosses in the system, ex-smuggler pilot Jez and the crew race back to the capital to head off an impending civil war in the ensuing power vacuum. But to stop a bloodbath, they need to buy themselves time to prepare. So while Masha, Ysbel, and Tanya provide a distra...

Their old enemy is back, and she's more dangerous than they ever imagined.Jez and the crew of the Ungovernable are injured, exhausted, and out of time. Their long-time nemesis, Evka, has finally perfected the weapon the crew has been desperately fighting to stop for months-a protocol that will allow her to track down and kill anyone in the system with the click of a button. And the lives of the crew, and of everyone they love, are on the line....

They've taken down the mafia, infiltrated the government, and thrown the System into chaos. But the final stage of the plan will test them to their very limits ...Decades ago, Masha hid under a table and watched her parents die. Now, with war in the streets and chaos in the government, she can at last put the ultimate piece of her revenge into action. But it will involve murder, deception, and cunning on an unprecedented scale, and she's no lo...

The government wants them dead. They want to know why. And if they want answers, the crew will have to pull what may be their most dangerous job yet.Long before signing on with the Ungovernable, back in his university days, ex-convict and one-time-student Lev stumbled onto a secret, a secret that ended in his professor and mentor disappearing, never to be heard from again. Now he and the rest of the crew are going back to university-but this t...

Breaking into one of the most secure prison planets in the system isn't the hard part. The hard part is going to be getting back out again.They just pulled off the heist of the century. Now ex-smuggler pilot Jez and the motley crew of the Ungovernable have a promise to keep: an extraction from a high-security political prison. But the timeline for the rescue is shorter than they ever imagined, and if they want to save their target from certain...

Someone's hunting the Ungovernable. And they're not going to stop until every one of the crew is dead.When an enemy from ex-smuggler pilot Jez's past reappears, determined to extract revenge, the crew of the Ungovernable have two options: fight, or run. But when a hyperjump gone wrong leaves the Ungovernable crippled, her weapons down and her cloaking disabled, their options become scarce indeed. As they scramble to repair the ship with rapidl...

She's lost her ship, lost her job, lost her reputation, and is on the run from the law. Jez is a damn good pilot, and she's always worked alone. Until she got picked up for smuggling, that is. Now she's an ex-con and ex-employed, and there are plenty of people with old scores to settle. So when a mysterious stranger in a battered pilot's coat comes to her with an offer that sounds too good to be true, she reluctantly agrees to listen.All she h...

Questo manuale fornisce consigli utili e pratici per la diagnosi ed il trattamento di intossicazioni acute e sovradosaggi di farmaci. Pur essendo molto dettagliato nella descrizione del quadro clinico, degli esami di laboratorio, della terapia d'emergenza e degli antidoti specifici, il volume è di rapida e facile consultazione, grazie anche alle numerose tabelle di cui è corredato e all'indice molto dettagliato. Esso offre un approccio pratico...

Examines the politics of female clergy and the broader issue of the political mobilization of professionals.