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Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0446610771
Pages: 464 pages
Publisher: Warner Aspect
Price: $6.99
Reader Rating: 9 out of 10
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Warchild by Karin Lowachee

Description: FIRST MISSION

We'd memorized schematics of the Diamond-class merchant ships. Our goal was the bridge.
We spread through the ship like a virus.
"Where's our resistance?" Dorr muttered, once we'd reached the command deck. The ship sat curiously silent. Only our booted steps along the deckgrille made noise. Overhead the lights flickered red: warning, warning, warning. Dorr unhooked a singing grenade, poked the settings, then let it go in midair. It shot forward down the corridor and turned the corner, seeking man-sized heat signatures that weren't protected by our coded armor beacons. Dorr flipped the tracker open on his wrist and watched the grenade's route. None of the other teams reported any contact. That meant that none of the rooms or quarters were occupied between here and the bridge.
My gut started to coil. "They're lying in wait," I said, just as the ceiling panels slid aside and fire rained down...

WARCHILD

The merchant ship Mukudori encompasses the whole of eight-year-old Jos's world, until a notorious pirate destroys the ship, slaughters the adults, and enslaves the children. Thus begins a desperate odyssey of terror and escape that takes Jos beyond known space to the homeworld of the strits, Earth's alien enemies. To survive, the boy must become a living weapon and a master spy. But no training will protect Jos in a war where every hope might be a deadly lie, and every friendship might hide a lethal betrayal. And all the while he will face the most grueling trial of his life...becoming his own man.