Fire with Fire
New Science Fiction Adventure Series! National Bestseller in trade
paperback. An agent for a spy organization uncovers an alien alliance
in nearby interstellar space — an alliance that will soon involve humanity in politics and war on a galactic scale.
2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a
conspiracy on Earth’s Moon — a history-changing clandestine project — and
ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later,
Riordan awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved
faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. And
now, Riordan is compelled to become an inadvertent agent of conspiracy
himself. Riordan’s mission: travel to a newly settled world and
investigate whether a primitive local species was once sentient — enough
so to have built a lost civilization.
However, arriving on site
in the Delta Pavonis system, Caine discovers that the job he’s been
given is anything but secret or safe. With assassins and saboteurs
dogging his every step, it's clear that someone doesn't want his
mission to succeed. In the end, it takes the broad-based insights of an intelligence analyst and a matching instinct for intrigue to ferret out the truth: that humanity is neither alone in the cosmos nor safe.
Earth is revealed to be the lynchpin planet in an impending struggle
for interstellar dominance, a struggle into which it is being
irresistibly dragged. Discovering new dangers at every turn, Riordan
must now convince the powers-that-be that the only way for humanity to
survive as a free species is to face the perils directly — and to fight
fire with fire.
Charles E. Gannon
Charles E. Gannon is the author of Compton Crook Award-winning, Nebula-nominated Fire with Fire, Trial by Fire, and Raising Caine in the Caine Riordan series. He is the coauthor with Eric Flint of 1636: The Papal Stakes and 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies in Eric Flint's best-selling Ring of Fire series. With best seller Steve White, Gannon is the coauthor of Starfire series entries Extremis, Imperative, and Oblivion. Gannon is also the author of multiple short stories. He is a member of SIGMA, the “SF think-tank,” which has advised various intelligence and defense agencies since the start of the millennium. A former professor, Gannon lives near Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife and children.
Caine Riordan
Caine Riordan consists of seven books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
