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The Order That Outlived the War
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Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
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ISBN13: 9798235856851
Publisher: Darius Blackman
Published: Aug 5 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Darius Blackman
Published: Aug 5 2026
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An authenticated military order reaches the Mercy system twenty-two years late. The government that issued it is gone. The war is over. The six ships bound by its command are still moving toward Nacre-and the array they have been ordered to destroy now guides rescue vessels, balances habitat power, and keeps millions of people connected.
Optical physicist Rhea Maddox has hours to decide whether her cooperative will transmit the order or interfere with lawful command. Her husband, constitutional mediator Julian Maddox, has months aboard a dangerous intercept mission to reach the convoy before it enters firing geometry. Between them stands Commander Asha Vale, a leader who knows exactly what disobedience can cost because she once helped recover the bodies left by a rescue that ignored an old warning.
Every attempted solution carries a physical price. Messages arrive after decisions have changed. Civilian systems cannot be separated cleanly from weapons. Six captains hold six independent keys. And the marriage at the center of the crisis must survive choices neither spouse can make in the other's present.
The Order That Outlived the War launches The Distance of Law, a hard-science-fiction political thriller series about authority, distance, Black family life, and what people owe one another when no shared present exists.
Every attempted solution carries a physical price. Messages arrive after decisions have changed. Civilian systems cannot be separated cleanly from weapons. Six captains hold six independent keys. And the marriage at the center of the crisis must survive choices neither spouse can make in the other's present.
The Order That Outlived the War launches The Distance of Law, a hard-science-fiction political thriller series about authority, distance, Black family life, and what people owe one another when no shared present exists.
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