Robert Buettner
Trade paperback original, and #2 in the science fiction adventure Orphanâ€™s Legacy series, a saga of spy games and military action on an interplanetary scale.Â  Ace intelligence operative Lt. Jazen Parker must take out a Nazi-like regime on a quarantined space habitat where heâ€™s limited to a War War II technological level and his own smarts, grit and determination.,Â #2 in the hard-hitting military science fiction Orphanâ€™s Legacy series.Â Â  Ace intelligence operative Lt. Jazen Parker parachutes into Tressel,Â a planet which resembles Earth in its Paleozoic era, on a mission to bring down the local politicos.Â  He quickly realizes heâ€™s been handed a near-impossible task.Â Â TresselÂ is a politically-quarantined nightmare world with a culture confined to iron rivet technology and a ruling regime a bit to the right of Heinrich Himmler.Â  Jazenâ€™s inclined to abandon this particular hellhole to its ways--that is, until he uncovers a plot afoot that will throw a five hundred-planet alliance into the death-throes of anarchy.Â  ,So the local Nazis must go.Â  Unfortunately, all Jazenâ€™s got to work with is a handful of rust-bucket tanks, a retread rebellion, and two strong, beautiful women who love him, but think heâ€™s tilting at windmills and is about to get himself killed.Â  What they donâ€™t know is, once committed, Jazen Parker is the best there is when it comes to getting the dirty job done on the ground.Â  Itâ€™s the local bullies who are about to be taught a lesson in losing.Â Â Â ,About Robert Buettner:Â  Â ,â€œBuettner goes well beyond . . . military science fiction . . . he understands . . . living as a soldier â€” the boredom punctuated by terror, the constant anxiety and self-doubt, the random chaos that battle always is, and the emotional glue that holds together people who may have nothing in common except absolute responsibility for one another's lives.â€ â€”Joe Haldeman, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author,â€œ[O]nce in a while . . . a contemporary author penetrates to the heart of Heinlein's vision . . . to replicate the master's effects. . . . [O]ne such book [is] Robert Buettner's ,Orphanage,.â€ â€” ,The Washington Post,â€œBuettner shows the Heinlein touch.â€ â€”,Denver Post
Science Fiction,Science Fiction,Military Science Fiction,Fiction,Adventure,Action,Space,Space Opera
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