false<![CDATA[Merchanter's Luck (Company Wars, #4) (Alliance-Union Universe)]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170461613m/57100.jpg571008Their names were Sandor and Allison. Kreja and Reilly respectively. Reilly meant something in the offices and bars of Viking Station: it meant the merchanters of the great ship Dublin Again, based at Fargone, respectable haulers on a loop that included all the circle of Union stars, Mariner and Russell's, Esperance and Paradise, Wyatt's and Cyteen, Fargone and Voyager and back to Viking. It was a Name among merchanters, and a power to be considered, wherever it went.
Kreja meant nothing at Viking, having flourished only at distant Pan-paris and Esperance in its day: at Mariner, under an alias, it meant a bad debt, and the same at Russell's. The Kreja ship was currently named Lucy, and she was supposedly based at Wyatt's, which was as far away as possible and almost farther away than reasonable for such a small and aged freighter, claiming to run margin cargo for a Wyatt's combine. Customs always searched her, though she called here regularly. Small, star-capable ships on which the crew was not related by blood, on which in fact there were only two haggard men, and one not the same as at last docking. such ships were not comfortably received at station docks, and received careful scrutiny.
<i>Lucy</i> was a freighter by statement, a long-hauler which ran smallish consignments independent of its combine's close direction, since the combine had no offices on Viking. She was a passenger carrier when anyone would trust her—no one did, though the display boards carried her offer. She took merchanter transfers if she could get them…55628book171982Merchanter's Luck (Company Wars, Book 4) (Alliance-Union Universe)total:233|5:61|4:98|3:64|2:8|1:2|233907304940falsefalseMon Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008Tue Jul 29 15:46:57 -0700 2008Tue Jul 29 16:05:54 -0700 2008
C.J. Cherryh I've ever read. As an author, I suspect she is a keeper. The science is fairly quiet in her stories (just a dull background, no geek porn here), but her characters are very believable. The protagonist in this story has been living on the margins for the las...more...]]>
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30falsefalseWed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007Sat Aug 18 14:17:47 -0700 2007Tue Aug 21 11:37:57 -0700 2007 This review makes the most sense in context of a review of other books in the same universe. Link here: [http://chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com/606571.html#cherryh]
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