To Challenge Heaven [Paperback]

The third entry into theNew York Timesbestselling series,To Challenge Heavenbrings another thrilling adventure from the masters of military science fiction, David Weber and Chris Kennedy.

In a universe teeming with predators, humanity needs friends. And fast.

We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with theothersentient bipeds who inhabit our planet.

We took the technology they left behind, and rapidly built ourselves into a starfaring civilization. Because we haven't got a moment to lose. Because it's clear that there are even more powerful, more hostile aliens out there, and Earth needs allies.

But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ...wasn'tan official one. That, indeed, its commander may have been acting as an unwitting cats-paw for the Founders, the ancient alliance of very old, very evil aliens who run the Hegemony that dominates our galaxy, and who hold the Shongairi, as they hold most non-Founder species, in not-so-benign contempt.

Indeed, it may turn out to be possible to turn the Shongairi intoourallies against the Hegemony. There's just the small matter of the Shongairi honor code, which makesbushidolook like a child's game. We might be able to make them our friends --ifwe can crush their planetary defenses in the greatest battle we, or they, have ever seen...

DAVID WEBER is the most popular living author of military science fiction. Aside from the Safehold series beginning withOff Armageddon Reef, he is also known for theNew York Timesbestselling Honor Harrington series, which includesUncompromising Honor. He lives in South Carolina.

CHRIS KENNEDY is a former school principal and naval aviator. His self-published novels include the Occupied Seattle military ficl³(