Honor Among Enemies (1996)

Baen ebook

Damn good book, interesting story. The series is roughly base on Forester's Horatio Hornblower series. The author made a reference to this series in this tale. Cute! ( )

If you liked On Basilisk Station, you'll like Honor Among Enemies. Honor Harrington is back, she's not well-liked in political circles, she's sent to the ass-end of space in a shoddy merchant raider with a crew of retards, fuck-ups, assholes, criminals, and newbies, and is surrounded by pirates and Haven merchant raiders. And she breaks her foot off in each and every one of her crew's behinds to get them to do their job. The same can-do determination that saw her through Basilisk Station is on display here. Definitely one of the better Honor Harrington books, with new places visited, and new factions introduced, the Andermani Empire and the Silesian Confederacy.

About the only hang-up I have with the book is that David Weber chose not to have this book lead directly into "In Enemy Hands". Instead the sacrifice she was making for those who escaped is ruined as they return to save her and her crew from the drifting wreck that is her ship by the end of the book. It would have been much better for her to have been saved by a Haven ship and lead directly into "In Enemy Hands". ( )

This isn't the place to start reading the Honor Harrington series. If you liked the others, you'll like this one too, although, for what it is worth, I would describe it as a typical rather than outstanding contribution to the series. ( )

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