Publisher Description

Book 1 of the Cobra Rebellion Saga, and a new entry in New YorkTimes #1 best seller Timothy Zahn's legendary Cobra series.Cobras: technologically-enhanced warriors bred to fight an alien menace noordinary human can withstand. At the center of the action on Cobra worldAventine: the legendary Moreau clan. In times of war, the Cobras are necessary,yet in times of peace they are often reviled by those they have saved. Now theCobras have resisted a second invasion of the alien Troft forces, and forced theTroft to a stalemate. Yet all is not well in the human sector of the galaxy. Asupposed sister empire, the Dominion of Man, threatens the Cobra worlds withwhat is, in effect, enslavement, as it moves to consolidate power over all theCobra worlds. Meanwhile, Cobra Merrick Moreau is on a secret mission of his ownto a world of humans enslaved by Troft masters. But the totalitarian Dominion ofMan and the Troft game-masters are in for a rude surprise: Cobras are not merelytechnological marvels. They are far more!

Author Biography

Timothy Zahn is a Hugo Award winner and the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, Heir to the Empire, as well as the best-selling Star Wars: Thrawn series of novels. Born in Chicago, he earned a B.S. in physics from Michigan State University and an M.S. in physics from the University of Illinois. He sold his first story to Analog in 1978 and immediately attracted attention as a new writer of science fiction based on real, cutting-edge science. Baen published his popular Cobra trilogy in one volume. His other popular series include the Conqueror and Dragonback novels. With David Weber and Thomas Pope, he is the author of novels A Call to Duty, A Call to Arms, A Call to Vengeance, and A Call to Insurrection. Zahn has written more than 50 novels, including the recent Cobra Rebellion series entries Cobra Outlaw and Cobra Traitor.

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