Cain's Land - Softcover

Frezza, Robert A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345390253 ISBN 13: 9780345390257

Verlag: Ballantine Books Inc., 1996

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Book by Frezza Robert A

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Lured out of retirement by the same government he once betrayed, renegade Lieutenant-Colonel Anton Vereshchagin is directed to make the first manned contact with the inhabitants of a newly discovered planet. Original.

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se of his brilliant leadership and daring tactical skills, renegade Lieutenant-Colonel Anton Vereshchagin has been lured out of retirement by a representative of His Imperial Majesty's Japanese government -- the same government Vereshchagin betrayed when he led the planet Suid-Afrika in a successful revolt, after he had commanded the Japanese campaign to conquer it.

Now Vereshchagin's dangerous mission is to make the first manned contact with the inhabitants of the newly discovered planet Go-Nihon. The potential benefits to mankind are enormous, but so are the perils. For beneath the planet's alien beauty lurks a civilization whose technology is in some areas slightly ahead of man's -- and a race whose instincts may be far deadlier.

When Vereshchagin's tiny fleet enters orbit around Go-Nihon, it is met with nuclear rockets. But those are easily destroyed, so the planet's rulers agree to negotiations and all seems to be going well. Then, in a surprise attack, the aliens kidnap

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0345390253
• ISBN 13: 9780345390257
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 301