Okay, this is a nice read, but not exactly a deep read. Wilson Cole, after being demoted (again) for an incident in which (of course) he was in the right and the naval brass was in the wrong, has been assigned to the Teddy Roosevelt, a space ship crewed by rejects, sent to a back corner of the Republic, where it promptly gets into all sorts of trouble, leading to (I don't think this is a spoiler) Mutiny!

This series is set in the overall universe of his Birthright universe, but being more familiar with his colonial Africa based books, like Santiago and Ivory, it didn't feel like the same universe, despite references to worlds like Walpurgis III (also the title of a novel set in the same universe).

Things move unbelievably fast (the first problems, leading to disobeying orders, happens on his first day on the ship, and it feels like the story takes place over a couple of weeks, which makes the crew loyalty a little unrealistic), but the writing is light and very readable. It's a good read for the summer, and I do plan to read the rest of the series over the next few months.