Into the Maelstrom
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Publisher Description
ENTRY #2 IN CITIZEN SERIES, SEQUEL TO INTO THE HINTERLANDS.
THE RIGHT MAN FOR A VERY BAD JOB
The Cutter Stream colonies were at peace. If everybody behaved reasonably, that peace could last a thousand years.
Allen Allenson had known war; it had made him peaceful and reasonable. He was far too experienced to believe the same was true of all his fellow colonists, however, let alone the government of the distant homeworld across the Bight.
War was coming, a war that the colonies had to win if they were ever to be more than prison camps and a dumping ground for incompetent noblemen. The experience that had caused Allenson to hate war made him the only man who could lead the colonial army.
Allenson knew that he wasn't really a general, but he understood his fellow colonists better than any homeworld general could. He would free the Cutter Stream, or he would die trying.
What Allen Allenson would not do, what he would never do, was quit.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Writing from an outline by Drake, Lambshead neatly adapts real history to a science fiction framework in the second novel of the Citizen trilogy (after Into the Hinterlands). Among the far-flung colonial planets of the Cutter Stream, frustration with home rule verges on revolution. Allen Allenson takes on the role of captain-general and leads a squabbling group of disjointed militias to war. If this sounds familiar, it is because Drake and Lambshead are telling the story of George Washington as a space opera. The authors adept contrivance of the Continuum, a troublesome energy field that allows interstellar travel but only via light vehicles, allows for ingenious renditions: a battering trip along the Continuum stands in for the crossing of the Delaware, and problematic marsh gases force the army to substitute catapults and knives for pulse rifles during the recreation of the siege of Boston. Surprises are scant, but knowing that Allenson will triumph in Cambridge and subsequently be defeated in Port Trent in no way detracts from the enjoyment provided by this ingeniously structured retelling.
