Vendetta

by Graham Sharp Paul

Some call it revenge; she calls it justice . . .

Samira Anders is young and out of control; drugs, alcohol, and a prison sentence are just the start.

But when Samira’s mercenary father is murdered, she has to change, and change she does, starting her new life with two promises: to take over from her father as command pilot of the family’s antiquated assault lander and to track down his killers.

Samira discovers that promises are easy to make and hard to keep. Worse, they have unintended consequences, and before long she becomes the target of one of humanspace’s biggest criminal organizations, an organization that will go the ends of space to hunt her down.

Samira finds herself in a desperate fight for survival, plunged into a world where death awaits every mistake, a world where nothing is what it seems, a world where lies wrap the truth in deceit.

And, with much more than her own life at stake, it is a fight she cannot afford to lose.

440 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2012

About the author

Graham Sharp Paul, born in Sri Lanka, received an honors degree in archaeology and anthropology from Cambridge University and an MBA from Macquarie University. He joined the Royal Navy in 1972, qualifying as a mine warfare and clearance diving officer before reaching the rank of lieutenant commander with the Navy's mine warfare flotilla. In 1983 he transferred to the Royal Australian Navy, serving in its Trials & Assessments Unit and Clearance Diving School before transferring to civilian life in 1987. Paul worked for two Australian companies in the banking and media sectors before setting up his own business development and corporate finance consultancy in 1991. Over the next twelve years he worked on a worldwide range of projects. In 2003 he gave up corporate life to write full-time.

Reviews

[Dale (Aus) · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the first three books by GSP but the last two really needed an editor I think. The writing is still good, I just didn't enjoy the flow of the story and it is making me think twice before a I pick another one up.

I enjoyed the story and to a certain degree the characters in this book but I just could accept the flow and the leaps of faith by the characters, the changing in direction and the revelations that didn't seem to fit the story tightly.

I hope he gets another editor and goes back to the tight well written earlier style I so enjoyed.

[Liviu]

Run of the mill sf adventure; opened read few pages and ending, no interest in more