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Title: Compelling Characters enter strange new territory
Review: It's always interesting to see what an author's truly able to do in a land of their own design. Karen Traviss has created a cast of likable (and some purposefully unlikable) characters.Shan Frankland's not just any cop; she's hard edge with a conscience and that not even bleeping suppressed briefing can keep down forever. She's got a rocky relationship with her "horribly young" (27) second in command, Commander Lindsay Neville, and she's walking a diplomatic tightrope between three bonified alien species, one of which could wipe out her entire mission with sickening ease should it take a notion to do so.Anyone want her job? Well, that's fine...she's good at what she does, too good in fact, and that's going to cost her big time. For a woman of retirement age, she sure don't know how to quit while she's ahead.
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