This particular prequel deals with the events before the book SUPERCARRIER by the same author. As in TRAITOR, we get a look at the son of Warren Husher, who was disgraced and died a traitor of the UHF even though he wasn’t. 20 years or so later, we meet his son, Vin Husher, again, and he is captaining his first ship, the Firedrake, investigating why the Wingers (an avian alien race) are pirating freely against UHF civilian freighters and what they are trying to hide.
Well, Husher is sent to figure out what is going on when a run-in with a Winger pirate goes wrong, and they stumble into more than they had expected, though it seems not more than his superiors expected. After declining a direct order which would have killed unarmed Wingers, he is sent back to be court-martialed and then placed on the Providence. This is where the book SUPERCARRIER begins, with a Lt. Vin Husher being placed under the command of a Captain Keyes, who was a personal friend of Husher’s father years ago.
There is much afoot between some Admirals and Darkstream Corp., and we pick up the conspiracy in SUPERCARRIER, which I am reading right now. I really like these characters, unlike other books by this author, and am looking forward to finishing this series.
