Balance Point
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4.7 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
#3 in the science fiction adventure Orphan’s Legacy series, a saga of spy games and military action on an interplanetary scale.
The balance point of interplanetary Cold War II between Earth and monolithic Yavet tips unexpectedly toward peace. Covert ops Captain Jazen Parker and his sharp shooting lover and partner Kit Born slide from world saving hazardous duty to escorting a telepathic alien monster home from Earth to mate. And the two of them are forced to consider a quiet domestic future together.
But when old enemies’ thirsts for power and revenge, Jazen’s problematic past, and his former girlfriend, upset Jazen and Kit’s personal balance point, the two cold warriors find their relationship, and their very survival, tested as never before.
Lost in space, and from one another, they must each penetrate Yavet, the universe’s most insular and repressive world, then foil a plot that could turn Cold War II hot and nuclear—or die trying.
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About Balance Point:
"Fans of classic military SF will enjoy the twists and quips . . ."—Publishers Weekly
About Robert Buettner and the Orphan's Legacy Series:
“Buettner goes well beyond . . . military science fiction . . . he understands . . . living as a soldier—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.” —Joe Haldeman, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author
“[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.” —The Washington Post
“Entertaining. Buettner shows the Heinlein touch.” —Denver Post
Robert Buettner served as an Army intelligence officer. After his discharge, he continued as an Army reservist and became a geologist and then a lawyer specializing in natural resources. Buettner has the licks of a modern-day Robert A. Heinlein when it comes to science fiction storytelling. He currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Buettner settles into a comfortable niche with the middling third installment of his Orphan's Legacy series (after Overkill and Undercurrents). American Army intelligence officer Capt. Jazen Parker is back, and this time his mission is personal. Just as Jazen's romantic entanglements collide and threaten his relationship with Kit Trentin-Born his partner in both work and romance he gets a note that summons him back to the planet Yavet. His adoptive mother is dying, and if he doesn't infiltrate Earth's rival in Cold War II, he'll have broken a promise to her. But the message is a trap, and his actions could threaten the delicate balance between the two interstellar superpowers. Fans of classic military SF will enjoy the twists and quips as Jazen dives in and Kit follows to rescue him and prevent open war.
