A Call To Arms – Snippet 28

by | Sep 21, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 28 CHAPTER FIFTEEN “Lieutenant. Long?” the gruff voice echoed down the passageway of HMS Phoenix. “Sir?” Travis came to a reluctant halt, taking the calming breath he’d taught himself to do at times like...

A Call To Arms – Snippet 27

by | Sep 18, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 27 “That’s because you didn’t know him before King Michael,” Breakwater said ruefully. “He was quite the politician during Elizabeth’s time, with a firm grasp of his opponents’ weaknesses and a...

A Call To Arms – Snippet 25

by | Sep 14, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 25 CHAPTER FOURTEEN They weren’t the words Captain Fairburn wanted to hear, Osterman knew. For that matter, they weren’t the words she wanted to say. But she had no choice but to say them. “No, Sir,” she said,...

A Call To Arms – Snippet 24

by | Sep 11, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 24 If Grimm had killed Shresthra and the rest of the crew, Izbica’s destruction could be viewed as a form of summary and unprocessed justice on a group of murderers. If the pirates had merely confined the crew, Fairburn would be...

A Call To Arms – Snippet 23

by | Sep 9, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 23 “So noted,” Fairburn said, an eerie feeling creeping along his spine. He’d read this order when it first came out five T-years ago, and remembered feeling the same black cynicism that probably every other officer in...

A Call To Arms – Snippet 22

by | Sep 7, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 22 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Readiness Two. The words echoed through Osterman’s mind as she carefully slid her rebuilt circuit board back into the Forward Missile capacitor-charging monitor. Captain Fairburn hadn’t bothered to explain...

A Call To Arms – Snippet 19

by | Aug 31, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 19 CHAPTER TWELVE Manticore had come and gone, and was no more than a faint dot in the Izbica’s aft viewer. And Captain Shresthra, in the quaint old vernacular, was not a Happy Camper. “You said there would be bales and bales...

A Call To Arms – Snippet 17

by | Aug 26, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 17 CHAPTER ELEVEN “I assure you, Captain Castillo,” Captain Shresthra said, a layer of sweat sheening his little brown face, “that there is nothing at all irregular about my ship, my crew, my passengers, or my cargo. I...

A Call To Arms – Snippet 16

by | Aug 24, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 16 Though of course there was also the whole general drying-up of jobs all across the galaxy that were available for under-the-radar groups like Gensonne’s. The predator was still there, but it was an increasingly hungry and...

A Call To Arms – Snippet 15

by | Aug 21, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 15 Which wasn’t to say he was pleased by the delay, of course. The Volsung Mercenaries’ headquarters was right where Ulobo’s data had put it: in the city of Rochelle on the planet Telmach in the Silesian Confederacy....

A Call To Arms – Snippet 14

by | Aug 19, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 14 BOOK TWO 1541 PD CHAPTER TEN “…and as always I wish you safe journeys,” the middle-aged man on the display said. “Godspeed, Lorelei. Come home to me soon.” The message ended. For a long moment Senior Chief...

A Call To Arms – Snippet 13

by | Aug 17, 2015 | Snippets, WeberSnippet

A Call To Arms – Snippet 13 Winterfall didn’t know what was about to happen, or what Breakwater was going to do in response. But no matter what went down in the next few minutes, Winterfall was determined that he himself would come out looking as good and...