David Drake’s legendary Raj Whitehall series, stunninglyreborn!
Humanity settled the stars, only to fall into a catastrophic collapse. Onone planet, a single artificial intelligence, a computer program known asCenter, found a military genius of grit and daring in Raj Whitehall, and theGalactic Republic rose again. But many dark planets remain — planets suchas Duisenberg. Here, a single river cuts through a vast continental desert and aculture not unlike that of New Kingdom Egypt has developed. But, when a capsulecontaining the forbidden metal, plastic, and circuit boards that Zentrum hatesfalls from the sky — circuits with secretly stowed away, uploaded versionsof Raj and Center — everything changes! What Raj and Center need now is ahero to break the Land’s stasis and lead Duisberg back from the galacticdark ages. Enter Abel Dashian. The son of a local military commander, he is abrilliant and courageous young man who has lost his mother to a simple bacterialinfection. He is a young man who will dare anything to avenge his mother’sdeath and bring about change. He is the Heretic.
