The cold war the Lodestar thought it had ended erupts on every front at once. Too cleanly, too well-timed, all of it dragging the theatre toward one contested region. Cross picks up a tool that works: lane-control authority, a hand on every road. Each use saves lives and grows a debt he can't read the bottom of. And a ship five years lost falls home with proof that the real war hasn't started.
(Some of you will have seen this listed under its working title, The War at the Door. Same book.)
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- Lane-control authority. Necessary evil, or the moment Cross became the thing he was fighting?
- Four rival powers closing on one patch of dark. Did you keep them straight? Should I have made it easier?
- The lost ship coming home. Talk about it.
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