Ritara is a senior test pilot for InterSystem, manufacturer of interstellar transport ships. Her orbital transfer craft is sabotaged and in the resulting crash her passengers are killed and she is left critically injured. Desperate for medical treatment and reinstatement she is compelled to accept blame for the accident. Then she is forced to choose between a lingering death in an icy wasteland or accept a new life as a human clone and undertake a hazardous journey to the distant planet Earth. But the expedition is under the control of a psychopathic megalomaniac and when Ritara and her two companions discover his real intentions to Earth and its people they rebel against his authority. Realising their lives are now in jeopardy the three human clones attempt to escape, but only Ritara manages to land on Earth. Now she is alone on the planet and she is blackmailed into co-operating with her tormentor in order to prevent the further torture of her two friends. Facing the prospect of a slow death alone amongst the alien race as her cloned body deteriorates she is forced to confront another dilemma. Should she co-operate in the subjugation of the Human race so that as a reward she can return home and be restored to her original body, or should she and her two companions forego any loyalty to their own race and help the Humans avoid the fate that an alien conquest has threatened.
. A good read. A beautiful young test pilot horribly disfigured by an 'accident'. The corrupt , devious corporate CEO who intends to take over a newly discovered heavy metals market. Lots of action spread across worlds and species. And earth, so rich with minerals, such a pleasant climate... I really enjoyed The Resurrection of Ritara.