Hijackers
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Annaâs nice comfortable world is in turmoil. Because of their success in destroying the foreign Raiders, Anna, Kris, and Adrian were promoted to full commander, and the project team was disbanded. Kris and Adrian were given NIA offices to manage on Stone Ring and Westar, and Anna is being pressured to move to Eastar to manage the NIA station. That would mean she would have to move away from home and Alexa, who Anna considers her refuge. In addition, she would be exposed to new people whose reactions to her are always unpredictable because of Annaâs red-headed krait and her young age. Worst of all, she would be responsible for managing a NIA office when she has no management experience. And being the youngest commander in the Navy will inevitably cause resentment.
While trying to adjust to her new challenges, Anna discovers two potential perils that threaten the security of the United Alliance of Stars empire. Separately, they are each as dangerous as the Raiders were. Together, they not only threaten the fabric of the empire, but they are exponentially more dangerous to Annaâthe bloodhound who discovered the threats and is doggedly pursuing them. If she is to survive, she will require help from her Red Angel.
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Clem Daems is a native of Chicago and a graduate of the University of Arizona. He served twenty-two years in the US Air Force and has worked as a software engineer, course developer, and adjunct professor teaching mathematics and computer science. He began his first novel at age seventy, several years after his retirement. His first novel, coauthored with Jeanne Tomlin, was a 2010 Eppie finalist in Fiction/Fantasy. Daems is an active member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife.
Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Cardâs Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guinâs The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angierâs Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazineâs Golden Earphones Award. She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.
