Into The Maelstrom

Entry #2 in the Citizen series, and sequel to Into the Hinterlandsby biological scientist Dr. John Lambshead and nationally best-selling DavidDrake.The Right Man for a Very Bad Job! The Cutter Stream colonies were at peace.If everybody behaved reasonably, that peace could last a thousand years. AllenAllenson had known war; it had made him peaceful and reasonable. He was far tooexperienced to believe the same was true of all his fellow colonists, however,let alone the government of the distant homeworld across the Bight. War wascoming, a war that the colonies had to win if they were ever to be more thanprison camps and a dumping ground for incompetent noblemen. The experience thathad caused Allenson to hate war made him the only man who could lead thecolonial army. Allenson knew that he wasn't really a general, but he understoodhis fellow colonists better than any homeworld general could. He would free theCutter Stream, or die trying. What Allen Allenson would not do, what he wouldnever do, was quit!