The Coward's Option
Synopsis
Two stories from the early years of Andrea Cort, later the heroine of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel, Emissaries from the Dead.“The Coward’s Option”: On the hostile home-world of the Caith, Andrea Cort has been assigned the case of a murderer who’s been condemned to a horrible death. All legal options have been exhausted, but the Caith offer a rarely-used alternative to execution, one that purports to ensure that the accused will never break the law again. Alas, it’s not so much another chance at life, but deliverance into a hell far worse than mere death…“Tasha’s Fail-Safe”: Once, she and Andrea Cort hated each other. Now, the victim of a savage assassination attempt by a traitor to the Confederacy, she lies in an unresponsive state, the identity of her assailant locked inside her head. Can Andrea penetrate a vital secret she never even knew existed?
- Copyright:
- 2017 Adam-Troy Castro
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781625672889
- Publisher:
- Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
- Date of Addition:
- 2018-04-30T15:55:49Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.