One Good Soldier

More about the book

First Time in Paperback. The Exciting Sequel to The Tau Ceti Agenda. One Good Soldier is the third installment in a fast-paced hard science military SF series, following One Day on Mars and The Tau Ceti Agenda. Set six years after the previous events, this gripping narrative unfolds in a single pivotal day for the United States of the Sol System, its extra-solar colonies, and the Separatist Revolutionaries of the Tau Ceti system. As the colony of Ross 128 secedes, President Alexander Moore, a former marine major, must act quickly to avert an interstellar civil war. He dispatches the flagship of the U.S. Naval fleet through the Quantum Membrane Teleporter in the Oort Cloud to confront the secessionists. However, the Tau Ceti Separatists have their own teleporter and are prepared for a fierce battle. Complicating matters, the president and first lady are unaware that their eighteen-year-old daughter has been kidnapped and taken to the Separatist leader's residence. The fate of the flagship, the Union, and the first daughter hinges on the courage and sacrifices of brave soldiers in a climactic showdown that culminates in intense hand-to-hand combat in the Oval Office.