Publisher's Synopsis
An orphaned farm boy, and a refugee from an enemy planet, and their friends aren't supposed to amount to much, but war is declared. "Must you reduce everything to the most vile equation that you can come up with, Father?" "I just tell the truth that's all. A poor refugee boy should know the truth and the only people who tell the truth are half dead old men (who aren't afraid of anybody anymore) and little children who don't know any better." ******* He had better technology. Better technology is harder to argue with. It was soon to be a fact that couldn't be hidden by any war propagandist who was smart enough to know when to stop lying." ******* "What makes you think that mere size of territory alone decides who rules a world? . Our freedom is linked together, his loss is mine and so was his victory of being a useful part of the crew. I miss you and the boys so much. We are stretched and made lonely by war but not broken. You are crew too, and I am your crew..." *******"The Opays are used to wielding power. They are used to spinning the wheel of time with blood, money, and sometimes the truth..." *******"The Rups don't know that they're seen as space pirate slavers with the morality and greed of beach monster worms.....The Rups think they are secular progressives, first-contact-holy men, or both." *******"Do you think we would waste good poisoned tea and a bodybag on you when we are in outer space? I could just throw you out the window to erase you from this life." *******"The prey should not know where the preditor hides."
