Flashing Dark - Falin, Bobbie

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Résumé :
No good deed goes unpunished: Captain Vivi Zant firmly believes that should be painted in giant red letters on station walls of every spaceport. Waking in a regen facility after a botched rescue effort, retired Space Marine Vivi Zant discovers that kindly Ritto-ssa doctors were forced to remove all her implanted tech to save her life. Seconds later, before she can even request a reinstallation procedure, the High Jerak, Endar head of planetary security for the Moneyworld, barges into the recovery room and demands she leave on the next ship offworld-on a ship Vivi knows doesn't exist. Escaping a transport ship to the Endar Primacy's merciless labs, Vivi is defenseless and running for her life on a planet where Humans are forbidden. She quickly learns she's not the only person under threat. Everyone-every Star Alliance on the Moneyworld-is living on a knife edge as Endar security mysteriously seems to know their every next move. Something is very wrong on the mega world that is the heart of Whooex Union of Stars, and it's making allies damned hard to find. Vivi's missing tech may make her the only person who can figure it out, but the clock is ticking. When that Endar transport arrives at its destination and she's not on it, all hell will break loose on the Moneyworld....

Biographie:
Bobbie Falin wields magic, thwarts evil forces, pilots sleek ships through space, drinks and carouses with aliens in shabby station bars, and wanders the worlds of other writers with wide-eyed wonder-in her head. Here on Earth, well that's a different. Here, she records Kaphri's adventures in the Starchild Series, stows away on the Thief's Hand, and complicates Gideon Rhue and Mei's life in Deformation. She still feeds the four local stray cats who show up for breakfast and dinner every day, and, yes, it's unreservedly true; if there were a space program to explore the stars, She'd be first in line.

Sommaire:
When is a rescue not a rescue? When it kills your little brother. The Earth Alliance Space Marines left a young Vivi Zant screaming on the station dock while the escaping smuggler ship plowed into an unmanned space tug, killing Anthy and everyone else on board. Now Vivi's caught in a similar dilemma. Her rescue of a kid from an abandoned space platform has gone awry. When she wakes in a rejuvenation center, she discovers that the child is wandering, alone, on the Moneyworld, where Humans are forbidden. She knows too well what can happen to unprotected children and she won't let it happen again. Despite having lost her ship, her partner, and all the tech that kept her in space, Vivi is determined to save the kid. She's willing to put the future of the whole Earth Alliance on the line as she takes on the Moneyworld and all the aliens-friends and enemies-that come with it.......