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 As Captain Pausert had often had
occasion to observe, life just wasn't fair! Hadn't he (with the
help of the notorious witches of Karres, of course) outmaneuvered
the deadliest of space pirates and eliminated the threat of the
Worm World (as told in The Witches of
Karres), after which, at the least, he deserved some time off.
No such luck, though, as the Empress herself sent him on a secret
mission to stop the nanite plague, but an enemy had somehow
convinced the Imperial Fleet that he was actually a wanted
criminal, so after a battle leaving his ship in urgent need of
repairs all three of them joined an interstellar traveling circus
(don't ask!) in order to save the galaxy once again (as told in
The Wizard of Karres).
Time for a vacation? Don't be
ridiculous—there's a new urgent mission that has Captain Pausert's
name on it! This new novel finds the long-suffering Captain and the
two young Karres witches—Goth, who vows she will marry him when she
grows up, and her younger sister The Leewit—being sent off to
investigate mysterious and ominous events in the notorious
Chaladoor region of space. Goth soon becomes aware that unknown but
surely inimical forces are tracking them, and in order to foil them
she takes a desperate route to travel back in time and meet Pausert
as a young boy. Meanwhile, the Captain and the Leewit find
themselves in the middle of their own desperate situation in the
Chaladoor.
Whoever it was who said that a change
was as good as a vacation never met any of the Witches of Karres—nor experienced their amazing
talent for getting Captain Pausert into trouble.
Cover Art by Stephen Hickman
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed
in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or
incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, January 2010
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN-13: 978-A1-4391-3307-1
ISBN-10: A1-4391-3307-7
Copyright© 2010 by Eric Flint & Dave
Freer
All rights reserved, including the right to
reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
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