For Captain Honor Harrington, it's sometimes hard to know who the enemy is. Offered a chance to reclaim her career, she is given command of a "squadron" of merchantment, and ordered to stop the pirates who are plundering the Kingdom's commerce. But the pirates are not all they seem.
Drugi tom cyklu o przygodach Honor Harrington. Tym razem bohaterka obejmuje dow?dztwo konwoju do systemu Yeltsin. Przedstawicielem Jej Kr?lewskiej Mo?ci zostaje admira? Courvosier, przyjaciel i mentor Honor, a celem ich misji jest zawarcie sojuszu z w?adzami planety Grayson. Manticore potrzebuje bowiem sprzymierze?c?w w zbli?aj?cej si? wojnie. Kr?lewskie Ministerstwo Spraw zagranicznych przeoczy?o jednak drobn? kulturow? r??nic?, zlecaj?c zadanie Honor na planecie Grayson kobiety nie maj? ?adnych praw i nawet sama obecno?? Harrington stanowi obelg? dla wszystkich m?skich obywateli. Na dodatek Grayson niespodziewanie zostaje zaatakowana przez fanatyk?w z planety Masada, a w boju ginie admira?. Czy Honor b?dzie w stanie ocali? planet? przed nuklearn? zag?ad??
Przybita ostatnimi wydarzeniami i rozgoryczona rozwojem sytuacji lady Honor Harrington udaje si? na planet? Grayson, by zaj?c si? zarz?dzaniem domen? Harrington i zaleczy? wewn?trzne rany.Spok?j jednak nie jest pisany — z jednej strony atakuj? wrogowie wewn?trzni, dla kt?rych kobieta — patron stanowi obraz?, z drugiej zewn?trzni: zrewolucjonizowana Ludowa Republika Haven kolejny raz pr?buje zdoby? system Yeltsin. Na drodze do zwyci?stwa jednych i drugich stoi tylko jedna przeszkoda — admira? lady Honor Harrington. Admira?, ale nie Kr?lewskiej Marynarki…
Duty. Honor. Country.Three words that resound in the heart of the warrior. But what is duty when country is gone? Where does honor lie when allies are revealed as enemies, when friends are not who they seem and when enemies are the ones we love?For Cally O’Neal and the O’Neal Bane Sidhe, underground fighters against the tyranny of Earth’s Darhel “allies,” duty lies in the overthrow of the established order. For Major General Michael O’Neal, her father, duty lies in maintaining that order to prevent a reinvasion by the dreaded Posleen.When diamond meets diamond, when O’Neal battles O’Neal, the only sure outcome is fireworks.
Honor Harrington zostaje powieszona, a nagranie z egzekucji rozpowszechnione. Admira? Esther McQueen pierwszy raz od lat przejmuje inicjatyw? i kontratakuje, zmuszaj?c Sojusz Manticore do obrony. Grayson ro?nie w si??, a Kr?lewska Marynarka testuje nowe uzbrojenie i now? klas? okr?t?w.Tymczasem na Hadesie, planecie wi?ziennej, Honor leczy rany odniesione w trakcie ucieczki. O tym, ?e prze?y?a, wiedz? jedynie dwie osoby. Dzi?ki pomocy wi??ni?w Harrington opanowuje planet? i obiecuje zabra? ich ze sob?. Jest tylko jeden problem — uwi?zionych jest prawie czterysta tysi?cy, a ona ma zwyczaj dotrzymywa? s?owa.
Sz?sty tom przyg?d Honor Harrington. Sz?sty tom przyg?d Honor Harrington, kt?ra wraca w nim do Royal Manticoran Navy, ale jako dow?dca grupy czterech statk?w pu?apek, czyli jednostek handlowych przerobionych na okr?ty wojenne, z za?ogami, na kt?rych nie mo?na zbytnio polega?. Ma oczy?ci? z pirat?w obszar Konfederacji Silesia?skiej, gdzie marynarka handlowa ponosi przez nich du?e straty. Jak si? jednak okazuje, nie wszyscy oni s? wy??cznie piratami, a na dodatek starzy wrogowie w Gwiezdnym Kr?lestwie Manticore nie zapomnieli o Honor Harrington i zrobili, co mogli, by tak zadanie, jak i przeciwnik oraz ?rodki, kt?re dano jej do dyspozycji, gwarantowa?y przegran?…
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