{"product_id":"2940016350745","title":"Echoes of Issel","description":"Diann Thornley Read began the Sergey Chronicles with Ganwold's Child. \"A very good first novel . . . in which a youngster plunges into a demanding military environment and is forced to find out just how good he is,\" said Orson Scott Card. \"This novel is exemplary for showing how the effective military mind really works--you'll find no romantic military nonsense here.\"\u003cbr\u003e In Echoes of Issel, Tristan, the young hero of Ganwold's Child, is now a soldier reunited with his family. Tristan and Lujan Sergey, commander of the Special Forces and the father Tristan has never known, try to find some common ground on which to build a relationship. A new universe is gradually opening for Tristan when a new crisis occurs and he is pressed to volunteer for hazardous return to service. The alien masuk slavers are about to attack the Issel star system and only Tristan, recently held hostage there by his father's nemesis, knows how to penetrate the planetary defenses.\u003cbr\u003e With this second volume, Thornley expands and deepens the personal relations in this military family, and the social and political structures of the Unified Worlds, as a new interstellar war threatens.\u003cbr\u003e \"Thornley melds diplomatic intrigue, anthropological speculation, and military derring-do into an effective yarn. . . . Thornley's elaborate plot is bolstered by vivid descriptions of unusually compelling characters. . . . She presents a richly imagined world that is truly alien while at the same time still understandable.\" Publisher's Weekly, September 1996","brand":"D Read Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101385375984,"sku":"2940016350745","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016350745_p0.jpg?v=1763634570","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016350745","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}