Scattered Suns
Chapter One
ADMIRAL LEV STROMO
Though Admiral Stromo was the ranking officer aboard the prowling
Manta cruiser, he let acting commander Elly Ramirez make the
day-to-day decisions. It generally worked out better that way.
Stromo didn't feel the need to throw his weight around, and he liked
to keep someone handy to take the fall if anything went wrong.
For decades in the Earth Defense Forces, he had made a career out of
delegating responsibility. He rarely participated in active field
operations-he hadn't joined the EDF just to put his own butt on the
line!-but sometimes it was useful to do so. Maybe the unqualified
success of crushing the main Roamer complex of Rendezvous would be
enough to rehabilitate his image as an obsolete desk commander.
Even so, right now Stromo longed to be back a ... read full excerpt from Scattered Suns ebook
