The Defiant Agents
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Start Publishing LLC · Ebook · February 1, 2016
Operation Cochise: a carefully planned Western move to colonize a planet ahead of the Russians.
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- Who it’s for
- A hard-edged planetary frontier brings Cold War rivalry into a strange, high-stakes adventure.
- Themes
- Planetary colonization, Rivalry between Earth powers, Survival on an alien world
- Pacing
- Fast
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Operation Cochise: a carefully planned Western move to colonize a planet ahead of the Russians. Travis Fox had been an eager volunteer, but the morning he dragged himself half-conscious from the wrecked spaceship on the planet Topaz, he sensed the terror which would threaten the project. Travis never learned why the ship had crashed, nor why he and the other Apache agents had been shot into space without warning.
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But he quickly finds that the Russians already had a horde of barbaric Mongols on the planet. Now if Travis can't unravel the secret of the eerie underground chamber in the towers hidden in a valley of mist, both Topaz and Terra could be destroyed.
Frontier in Space
A hard-edged planetary frontier brings Cold War rivalry into a strange, high-stakes adventure.
Come here for
- Western-style colonization recast as a contest between Earth powers
- Apache agents, Russian rivals, and an unsettling planetary mystery
Expect
- A tense blend of military science fiction and frontier adventure
- An eerie underground chamber tied to danger on Topaz and Terra
Where it sits
| Time Travel Fiction | 34% |
|---|---|
| Sci-Fi Adventure | 30% |
| Sci-Fi | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- The Classics
- Sci-Fi Adventure
- Time Travel Fiction
- Authors
- Andre Norton
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- February 1, 2016
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Planetary colonization · Rivalry between Earth powers · Survival on an alien world
- Reading lane
- The Classics