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Description

On the planet Grayson to participate in diplomatic talks between the Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven, Honor Harrington discovers that she is stuck on a fiercely patriarchal, misogynist planet.

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Cast of Characters/Important People

  • Honor Harrington: The heroin of the series and an analog for Horatio Hornblower. She has a genius for tactical situations and is so often in major conflicts she is known as the Salamander. Those who serve with her adore her, and those she is against fear her.

First Sentence

The cutter passed from sunlit brilliance to soot-black shadow with the knife-edge suddenness possible only in space, and the tall, broad-shouldered woman in the black and gold of the Royal Manticoran Navy gazed out the armorplast port at the battle-steel beauty of her command and frowned.

Series

This is book 2 in the Honor Harrington series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. David Weber (Author)
 

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