Echoes of Issel

Diann Thornley Read began The Sergey Chronicles with GANWOLD'S CHILD. In ECHOES OF ISSEL, Tristan, the young hero of GANWOLD'S CHILD, is now a soldier reunited with his family. Tristan and Lujan Sergey, commander of the Special Forces and the father Tristan has never known, try to find some common ground on which to build a relationship. The universe is just opening up for Tristan when a new crisis occurs and he is pressed to volunteer for hazardous return to service. The alien masuk slavers are about to attack the Issel system and only Tristan, once held captive there, knows the planetary defenses.With this second volume, Thornley expands and deepens both the personal relations in this military family and the social and political structures of the Unified Worlds as another war threatens."Thornley melds diplomatic intrigue, anthropological speculation, and military derring-do into an effective yarn. . . . Thornley's elaborate plot is bolstered by vivid descriptions of unusually compelling characters. . . . She presents a richly imagined world that is truly alien while at the same time still understandable." PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, 1996