Barrett's Privateers
"In a Galaxy where peace is breaking out all over,
it's not always easy for a pirate to adapt."
Available now from Double Dragon!
The Grugell War is over. The Galaxy is at peace, with
uneasy diplomatic relations established between the Confederacy and the
Grugell Empire.
Follow along for two post-war adventures of The Crider Chronicles’ Captain
Jean Barrett as she and the crew of the armed privateer starship Shade Tree
struggle to make a living in the post-war Confederacy by accepting whatever
jobs come their way. Sometimes they’re legal -- and sometimes not.
The first volume includes two stories:
Plague Ship
The First Galactic war has ended, and peace and renewed commerce are breaking out throughout the Galaxy.
Captain Jean Barrett, master of the privateer ship Shade Tree, is finding peace as full of challenge as war. Forced to operate at times on the shadowy side of the law, she has accepted a commission to steal the cargo of a smuggler that is illegally transferring minerals to the hostile Grugell.
Boarding the smuggler’s ship has revealed something Barrett was not expecting; a deadly virus threatens her crew, and Barrett must find a cure, save her ship and crew, turn the tables on her would-be murderer – and make a profit in the process.
Next:
Unrepentant Sinner
Colonel Augustus G. Feller, Confederate Marines (retired) is cruelly bored by the routine of retirement. A life of combat, adventure, and excitement has left him ill-prepared for life in his quiet Mountain View condominium.
A night on the town leads Colonel Feller to the Shade Tree's Security Chief. An hour's conversation is all the incentive the Colonel needs to sign on, as the Shade Tree races to an unaffiliated new colony to save two crew members from a slaver ring - and the Colonel tries to find an end more befitting his life than the cancer that's slowly killing him.
Coming soon:
Barrett's Privateers III - Throwing Stones
An insanely wealthy Tarbosian entrepreneur, Hudson Amole, hires the Shade Tree to take him and his colonizing party to a rich new forest world on the Confederacy's southern border.
On landing, Captain Barrett's crew discovers the remains of campfires, and broken wooden tools - a species on the verge of intelligence inhabits this new world, making it off-limits under Confederate law. Amole and his colonizing crew propose to wipe out the entire species to clear the way for their colony, and only Captain Barrett, her crew, and the enigmatic race known as The Hive stand in their way.
Randolph Cassidy, special investigator for the Confederate Bureau of Investigation, is assigned to investigate a possible kidnapping. There is a catch; the suspected kidnappers are arms dealers with near-diplomatic status due to their contacts in the Navy and the Department of Defense.
Cassidy needs to follow the suspected kidnappers, unravel the reasons behind their actions, and keep a low profile while doing so - which makes hiring a privateer ship irresistibly attractive, in spite of Captain Barrett's well-known dislike of "Feds."