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In the Stormy Red Sky


CoverTAKE BACK THE BLOODY VEIL

With a new destroyer command under him, now-Captain Daniel Leary and master spy Lady Adele Mundy are off to the backwater Veil region on a diplomatic mission.  Did we say diplomatic?  Yeah, right. What they find is a local warlord ready to throw Cinnabar from the region, a vile aristocrat dealing in slave labor—and a huge Republic of Cinnabar Navy defeat that has thrown the entire sector under the crushing heel of the vile Alliance.

Time to fight back—and that Alliance stronghold in the nearby Monserrat cluster looks awfully vulnerable. Okay, actually, it looks impregnable to any but a determined Leary and Mundy. But should they achieve the impossible yet again, they do have an occupying army nearby—if only they can free it from its chains!

Master and Commander to the Stars!

"[R]ousing old-fashioned space opera."
Publishers Weekly on the "Cinnabar" series.

"Drake couldn't write a bad action scene at gunpoint."
Booklist

Cover Art by Stephen Hickman


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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, May 2009

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Drake, David.
  In the stormy red sky / David Drake.
       p. cm.
  "A Baen Books original."
  ISBN 1-4165-9159-1
  I. Title.
  PS3554.R196I5 2009
  813'.54—dc22
                                     2008051055

Pages by Joy Freeman (www.pagesbyjoy.com)
Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9159-7
ISBN-10: 1-4165-9159-1

Copyright© 2009 by David Drake

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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To Hank Davis

Fellow writer, fellow Nam vet, fellow lover of pulp SF

 

BAEN BOOKS by DAVID DRAKE

The RCN Series

With the Lightnings
Lt. Leary, Commanding
The Far Side of the Stars
The Way to Glory
Some Golden Harbor
When the Tide Rises

In the Stormy Red Sky

Hammer's Slammers

The Tank Lords
Caught in the Crossfire
The Butcher's Bill
The Sharp End
Paying the Piper

Independent Novels and Collections


The Reaches Trilogy
Seas of Venus
Ranks of Bronze
Cross the Stars
The Dragon Lord
Birds of Prey
Northworld Trilogy
Redliners
Starliner
All the Way to the Gallows
Grimmer Than Hell
Other Times Than Peace
Foreign Legions, edited by David Drake
The Undesired Princess and The Enchanted Bunny (with L. Sprague de Camp)
Lest Darkness Fall and To Bring the Light (with L. Sprague de Camp)
Killer (with Karl Edward Wagner)

The General Series

Warlord with S.M. Stirling (omnibus)
Conqueror with S.M. Stirling (omnibus)
The Chosen with S.M. Stirling
The Reformer with S.M. Stirling
The Tyrant with Eric Flint

The Belisarius Series with Eric Flint

Belisarius I: Thunder at Dawn
Belisarius II: Storm at Noontide
Belisarius III: The Flames at Sunset

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