In the Stormy Red Sky

DANIEL LEARY IS CINNABAR'S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPACE CAPTAIN; HIS FRIEND, LADYADELE MUNDY, IS ITS MOST EFFICIENT SPY--BUT THEY'VE GOT THEIR HANDS FULL THISTIME AS THEY FACE:• A Cinnabar Senator furious at losing anelection—and still powerful enough to make her anger deadly.• Theboy ruler of a star cluster who thinks he's a god—and who can sign thedeath warrants of even Cinnabar officials if a mad whimsy tells him to.• Aworld of slaves and escaped slaves, where the most savage beasts in the jungleused to be human.• An enemy base that could shrug off attack by powerfulbattlefleets—but which must fall to a single cruiser if Cinnabar is tosurvive. From palace to reeking jungle, from gunfights in grimy hangars to theflagship's bridge during a sprawling space battle, Leary and Mundy are in thethick of it again. Watch the galaxy explode—IN THE STORMY REDSKY

David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted. He served the next two years in the Army, spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th armored Cavalry in Viet Nam and Cambodia. Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke and was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981. Besides the bestselling Hammer's Slammers series, his books for Baen include Ranks of Bronze, All the Way to the Gallows, Redliners, and many more. His "Lord of the Isles" fantasy novels for Tor are genre best sellers. In the Stormy Red Sky is the seventh in the popular RCN series. The previous titles are: With the Lightnings; Lt. Leary, Commanding; The Far Side of the Stars; The Way to Glory; Some Golden Harbor and When the Tide Rises.