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When Diplomacy Fails. . .-eARC


High tech near-future mercenaries Ripple Creek Security must protect an obnoxious world government minister from the scores of enemies who want her dead—and killed in the worst possible way.

Alex Marlow and Ripple Creek Security’s best personal security detail return to action. This time, they really don’t like their principal, World Bureau Minister Joy Herman Highland—a highly placed bureaucrat with aspirations to elected office. But Highland’s would-be assassins are up against the best security in the business—and Ripple Creek has no qualms about seeing their own explosions on galactic news. In fact, they kind of enjoy it.

Cover Art by Kurt Miller



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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, August 2012

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-10: 1-4516-3790-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-4516-3790-8

Copyright 2012 by Michael Z. Williamson

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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