Shadow Game
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Publisher Description
Wars make unlikely allies.
When his ship is damaged, retired assassin Gau Shesharrim finds himself stranded on a hostile world. To repair his ship, he will have to sneak into a jungle spaceport crawling with Terrans and their scaly Urd allies.
An impossible task. Until help comes from an unexpected source.
Arkk just wants to evade the Urd hunting him. A chance encounter with Gau offers him temporary refuge, and something more: a way to get justice for his slaughtered paddock. But first they have to get off-planet.
Can Gau and Arkk work together to escape before their enemies catch up to them?
Shadow Game is a story of serendipity, retribution, and empowerment set in the thrilling universe of the Expansion space opera series.
Customer Reviews
Chance Evens Puts Two Aliens on the Path of Self Discovery
This review was first published on Kurt's Frontier.
Synopsis:
Gau Shesharrin (retired assassin and veteran of the Terran/Osk war) runs into a debris field, which leaves his ship, the Carnivore, in need of repair. Stranded on a world crawling with Terrans and their scaly Urd allies, he faces the impossible task of finding the resources to fix the damage. Help comes from an unlikely quarter. He meets an Arashal named Arkk, who is fleeing an Urd hunting party that slaughtered his people. If they work together, Gau can repair his ship, and Arkk can seek justice for his paddock.
Review:
“Shadow Game” is a novelette by Caitlin Demaris McKenna and part of her Expansion Series. What makes the story interesting is that Caitlin Mckenna wrote it entirely from the aliens’ point of view. It was a little disorienting at first, but it flowed well once I got into the story. A chance event puts two alien beings on a course of self-discovery. The novelette whetted my appetite to read the first novel in the series, Absence of Blade.