{"product_id":"2940148682455","title":"Crusade (Starfire Series #2)","description":"Spacers call the warp point Charon's Ferry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo star ship has ever entered it and returned since a vengeful Orion task force pursued a doomed Terran colonization fleet into it in 2206.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlmost a century has passed. The fiery hatreds of a quarter-century of warfare between the Terran Federation and the Zheeerlikou'valkhannaieeee, the cat-like species humans called the \"\"Orions,\"\" have eased at least a little. The \"\"Grand Alliance\"\" forged by the need to fight side-by-side against the genocidal Rigelians remains, but there are those on either side who continue to hate, continue to distrust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow the strength of that war-forged alliance is about to be tested. For Charon's Ferry is about to give up the secret of its dead. A ship has emerged from the deadly warp point at last. A ship which responds to the challenge of an Orion star ship using ancient human communications codes . . . then opens fire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe holocaust of interstellar warfare has been ignited anew, in a bloody crusade to free Holy Mother Terra.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Baen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067873706224,"sku":"2940148682455","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148682455_p0.jpg?v=1763706756","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148682455","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}