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Sten had fully expected to die in a blaze of glory, taking his Emperor's greatest foe with him. Instead he was a slave laborer in a P.O.W. camp deep in the heart of enemy territory. But sitting out the action had never been Sten's style. And now that the war was building to a climax, the Eternal Emperor needed him more than ever. Not even the toughest prison in the known universe could keep Sten from his mission ... For more information on this or any other Orbit title, visit the Orbit show more website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk show lessTags
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The second part of the Tahn wars duo which marks the middle of the Sten series. It is a surprising straight-forward story, with few shocks for the reader, but the conclusion of so many plt lines is welcome. The finale of the book contains the only true surprise, but it is a bit of a shocker.
The series charts the rise of a relative nobody to captain of the Imperial Bodyguard, friend and ultimately betrayer of the Emperor. The author's own notes point out the falacy (as he sees it) of the older SF systems with galaxy spanning empires. The betrayal at the end of the series is thus essential so that the society can become a free democracy.
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