Chapter Forty-Nine

Chapter Fifty

Chapter Fifty-One

Chapter Fifty-Two

Ship Schematics

Characters

STORM FROM THE SHADOWS-ARC

David Weber

Advance Reader Copy

Unproofed

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.

Copyright © 2009 by David Weber

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

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ISBN 10: 1-4165-9147-8

ISBN 13: 978-1-4165-9147-4

Cover art by David Mattingly

Interior schematics by Thomas Marrone, Thomas Pope and William H. Edwards

First printing, March 2009

Distributed by Simon & Schuster

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Weber, David, 1952 Storm from the shadows / David Weber.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9147-4

ISBN-10: 1-4165-9147-8

1. Harrington, Honor (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Space warfare—Fiction. 3. Women soldiers—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3573.E217S76 2009

813'.54—dc22