• The Better Part of Valor [top]
  First published in 2002 in Great Britain by Daw Books, in paperback, 411pp, ISBN 0756400627

About this book/synopsis: Never tell a two-star general what you really think of him... That was the mistake Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr had made with General Morris. But as a battle-hardened professional, she took pride in doing her job and getting her troops back alive. So after she'd saved the mission to bring back the Silsviss into the Confederation - instead of losing them and their world to the enemy known only as the Others - she let the general know exactly how she felt. And Torin's reward - or punishment - was to be separatred from her platoon and sent off on what might well prove an even more perilous assignment. She was commandeered to protect a scientific expedition to a newly discovered and seemingly derelict spaceship of truly epic proportions. And Confederation politics had saddled here with a commanding officer who might prove more of a menace to the mission's success than anything they encountered. Only time would tell if the ship was what it appeared to be, or a trap created by the Others - or the work of an as yet unknown alien race with an agenda that could prove all too hostile to other life forms...