Second Contact
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Publisher Description
The captain of a spaceship had shot and killed two of his crewmen, and Major Maxwell Becker, a military lawyer, is assigned as his defense attorney. The captain claims that the two were aliens, and refuses to plead insanity. Becker decides the easiest way to get the captain to change his plea is to show him the futility of putting together the defense the captain insists upon – until his witnesses start dying and disappearing and being transferred offworld…and suddenly Becker is being hunted down by the very same space agency he has worked for all his adult life.
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In the year 2065, Max Becker, lawyer and major in the U.S. Army, is ordered to defend Commander Wilbur Jennings, captain of the spaceship Roosevelt , against the charge of having murdered two of his crewmen. Jennings freely confesses that he killed two people, but says they were alien impersonators. He refuses to let Becker enter a plea of insanity, claiming that he is the innocent victim of a conspiracy. With the help of his computer-hacker friend Jaimiesp ok Nchobe, Becker tries to gather evidence to convince Jennings that he is wrong. In the process, Becker discovers that he himself is marked for extermination. Resnick (Santiago) weaves a tight and well paced SF murder mystery with a pleasingly logical, yet unexpected resolution.
