In Enemy Hands
Honor Harrington has faced ship-to-ship combat, assassins, political vendettas and duels. She's been shot at, shot down, and just plain shot; had starships blown out from under her, and made personal enemies who will do anything to ruin her, and she's survived it all. Now she finds herself on...
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Honor Harrington has faced ship-to-ship combat, assassins, political vendettas and duels. She's been shot at, shot down, and just plain shot; had starships blown out from under her, and made personal enemies who will do anything to ruin her, and she's survived it all. Now she finds herself on board a battlecruiser bound for a prison planet aptly named 'Hell' - and her scheduled execution. Put into solitary confinement, separated from her officers and her treecat Nimitz, and subjected to systematic humiliation by her gaolers, her future has become both bleak and short. Yet the one lesson Honor Harrington has never learned is how to give up ...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780671577704 (0671577700)
Publish date: October 1st 1998
Publisher: Baen
Pages no: 530
Edition language: English
The poorest in the series so far, the first half of the book does not need to be read and the whole shambles of the White Haven / Honor attraction is poorly written, poorly executed, and not believable given the character's experiences.Once he is off the scene the book gets better, but its a bit slo...
Not very surprisingly I didn't really like this one vey much. Not only do I not like the concept of Harrington surrendering but the book was, for large parts, bloody slow.
I enjoyed the second half of this book far more than the first. For the first 40 pages or so, the reader is treated not only to a recap of the rest of the series (understandable, most serieses do this), but also example after example of how "special" Honor, how everyones loves, how she is the most ...