Synopses & Reviews
When the colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attach the aliens not from space, but on the ground-with forces the Trofts did not even suspect. Thus were created the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. And the Moreau family were the most famous of the Cobra warriors.
Long after vixtory the Troft was achieved, the Cobras made common cause against their former adversaries against a new enemy. Their reward was three planets that would be a home for the Cobras, whose deadly powers made them too dangerous to feel at home on Earth.
Now, years had passed and not everyone on the Cobra worlds thought that the Cobras were worth the high cost of providing their trainging and maintaining their existing built-in weaponry, let alone support research to improve the Cobra weapons, and possibly even put an end to the negative effects of that built-in weaponry, which caused Cobras to die much too young. Many who had never known interplanetary war were convinced that the Cobras were not needed at all.
That was a grave miscalculation, because a new menace was approaching, one that even the formidable Cobra warriors might not be able to defeat...
Synopsis
When two colony worlds fall to Troft forces almost without a struggle, Earth makes a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but with a new Cobra ground force. Now that same force is under threat of disbanding--just when they're needed most.
About the Author
Timothy Zahn is a Hugo Award-Winner, and author of the New Times best seller Heir to the Empire. Born in Chicago, he earned a B.S. in physics from Michigan Sate University and an M.S. in physics from the University of Illinois. He sold his first dtory to Analog in 1978, and immediately attracted attention as a new writer of science fiction based on real, cutting-edge science. Baen recently published his popular Cobra trilogy in one volume. His other popular series include the "Conqueror and Dragonback" novels. Zahn has written over twenty novels, including the recent works Angelmass and Manta's Gift.