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Wimzo (Mobile Pdf) Marque and Reprisal Online wimzo (Mobile pdf) Marque and Reprisal Online [wimzo.ebook] Marque and Reprisal Pdf Free Par Elizabeth Moon *Download PDF | ePub | DOC | audiobook | ebooks Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook Détails sur le produit Rang parmi les ventes : #287360 dans eBooksPublié le: 2004-09-28Sorti le: 2004-09- 28Format: Ebook Kindle | File size: 28.Mb Par Elizabeth Moon : Marque and Reprisal before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Marque and Reprisal: Commentaires clientsCommentaires clients les plus utiles1 internautes sur 1 ont trouvé ce commentaire utile. La guerre des trusts ...Par Finity's endKy Vata perd le plus gros de sa famille dans ce qui est une véritable guerre de « grands marchands « .L'héroïne a déjà été entrevue dans : Trading in Danger .Cette femme de tête se métra en quête des informations nécessaires pour réaliser son projet de vengeance et de survie . Elle entreprend donc de tenter de porter secours au reste de sa famille survivante avec une équipe constituée de pièces largement rapportées et assez difficiles à gérer .En toute honnêteté ce fil d'intrigue est tout de même sacrément bien foutu ! et je ne regrette absolument pas d'avoir tenté d'explorer les ouvrages en vo de cette auteure alors que ce qui est disponible en français ne m'avais globalement pas réellement convaincu .On se trouve projeté dans un univers qui a du corps et qui est très cohérent avec une identité assez marquée . Ce roman peut se lire seul mais comme c'est souvent le cas en science-fiction , les tomes s'ajoutent les uns aux autres et la satisfaction se densifie au grès des pages et des tomes ( ou bien se lasse et passe , des fois ) .Sinon c'est de la science-fiction Old school , le coté Hight Tech est moins fulgurant qu'il pourrait l'être par exemple dans un texte plus contemporain , encore que ce texte date de 2003 .L'auteur imagine un contexte assez « hard « et les personnages sont cohérents avec ce contexte qui n'a pas grand-chose de convenu ou de « cliché « , même s'il faut l'avouer ce roman est légèrement affecté par le travers habituel de l'auteur qui ne fait généralement pas l'effort d'embarquer vigoureusement le lecteur dans un lointain futur , avec un futurisme qui serait absolument conquérant !J'ai bien aimé cette femme qui a des heures de vols , qui est compétente et qui parvient à commander son équipe alors que bien souvent les personnages masculins sont des fortes têtes ...Les « sentiments « se mêlent d'une partie du récit en se plaçant un moment au centre de l'intrigue , au point que d'aucun pourrait juger qu'ils viennent la corrompre et je serais volontiers de cet avis si l'auteur ne parvenait très justement à mettre en valeur les écueils et les disfonctionnements qui naissent du rapprochement des corps et des sentiments en matière de relations humaines et machines de guerre bien huilées ou encore en matière d'influence .Personnellement j'aurais préféré que l'auteur s'appesantisse sur d'autres aspects du décors , mais je ne saurais en conclure que c'est mauvais pour autant , et ce d'autant plus que ce n'est pas mauvais .L'intrigue n'atteint pas des sommets mais c'est un bon roman d'action sur fond de space opera assez musclé et crédible .Cette femme fera l'impossible pour armer son vaisseau , pour poursuivre son activité de négoce , pour démêler l'écheveau d'une situation politico-familiale complexe et ambiguë , en compagnie de mercenaires pas faciles qui sont bien des mercenaires et le tout en même temps et dans un seul élan , d'une seule traite .Un roman qui date de 2003 mais qui affiche volontairement une patine « relativement « années 90- 2000 , se plaçant ainsi à l'ombre des riches heures du space opera psychologique .C'est le premier roman de l'auteur où je suis quasiment pleinement à l'aise et j'espère sincèrement que l'expérience se renouvellera .Ce texte ne contient pas vraiment de clichés , du type personnages caricaturaux . On peut penser à des stéréotypes souvent , mais la qualité est souvent également au rendez-vous et elle vient régulièrement replacer les choses dans leur contexte , en nous rappelant que ces personnages sont plus des emblèmes que des caricatures ou des stéréotypes ...................................................................Trois étoiles et demie , quatre étoiles en fait , le tout se jouant dans un mouchoir de poche .................................................................... Présentation de l'éditeurKylara Vatta, risk-taking, rule-breaking, can-do heroine of Trading in Danger, is back in business–the kind that’s anything but usual–in the new military science fiction adventure by ace action storyteller Elizabeth Moon.The exciting military career she hoped for never got off the ground–but Ky Vatta ended up seeing plenty of combat when she took the helm of one of the commercial transport vessels in her family’s fleet . and steered it into a full-blown war. Now the lessons she learned in that trial by fire are about to pay off: because this time, the war has come to her. To be exact, someone unknown has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky’s father’s interstellar shipping empire. In short order, most of Ky’s family is killed, and subsequent attacks sever vital lines of communication, leaving Ky fighting, in every sense, to survive.Determined to identify the ruthless mystery enemy and avenge her family’s name, Ky needs not only firepower but information. And she gets both in spades–from the band of stranded mercenaries she hooks up with, from her black-sheep cousin, Stella, who’s been leading a secret life, and from Stella’s roguish ex-lover, Rafe. Together they struggle to penetrate the tangled web of political intrigue that’s wreaking havoc within InterStellar Communications, whose effective operation their own livelihoods–and perhaps lives–depend on.But the infighting proves to be infectious, and it isn’t long before Ky’s hired military muscle are turning their suspicions on the enigmatic Rafe, whose wealth of knowledge about ISC’s clashing factions and startling new technologies has begun to make him smell like a rat . or a mole. With swift, violent destruction a very real possibility, the last thing Ky needs is a crew divided against itself–and she’s prepared to take whatever measures are necessary to ensure that Vatta stays in business, as well as in one piece.What she’s not prepared for is the shocking truth behind the terror– and a confrontation with murderous treachery from a source as unexpected as it is unrelenting.ExtraitCHAPTER ONEKylara Vatta looked at the mass of paperwork from Belinta's Economic Development Bureau and sighed. The real life of a tradeship captain: paperwork and more paperwork, negotiation with shippers, customers, Customs officials. The life she hadn't wanted, when she chose to enter the Slotter Key Spaceforce Academy, and the life she had fallen back into when she was expelled. Boring. Mundane.Not that her recent experiences in Sabine had been boring or mundane--terrifying was more like it--and no one would want another trip like that.Except that she did. She remembered very clearly the rush of excitement, the soaring glee of the fight itself, the guilty delight when she'd killed Paison and Kristoffson. So either she wasn't sane or...or nothing. She thought of the diamonds tucked into her underwear drawer. Not enough to restore her old tub of a ship completely, but enough to take her to somewhere else, somewhere she could make the kind of life she really wanted. Perhaps the mercenaries would accept her violent tendencies; they'd offered a chance. Perhaps someone else. It would annoy her family, but not as much as the truth would hurt them.No. She had to finish one job at least. Crew depended on her. The ship belonged to her family, as well, and she could not possibly earn enough to buy it away by the next stop or the next. She sighed again, signed another sheet, and stared at the next. All right, then. Take this old tub to Leonora, deliver that cargo, then to Lastway. If she couldn't finance a refit by then, return to the original plan and go home by commercial passenger ship. If she made enough profit, enough to do the refit, she could get that done and bring the ship back to Slotter Key, and then resign. Or--she stared into a distance far beyond her cabin bulkhead. She could send the ship back with someone else. Quincy, for instance, knew enough to run the ship herself.In the long run, her family would be better off without her. If her father knew how she'd felt when she killed...no. She had had those nightmares, trying to explain to that gentle man, hoping for his understanding but seeing the horror in his face. Better the smothering, overprotective love that had annoyed her in their last conversation than that horror, that disgust, that rejection. If she went home, he would sense something; he would try to probe, try to get her to confide in him, and eventually he would wear her down. It would be worse than anything else that had happened, to have her father sorry she was ever born.She should just go away. Years later, maybe, she might be able to explain it to him, and he might be able to accept it. Years might put a safe skin on the raw truth of what she was.She worked her way through the rest of the forms, then decided to take them to the local postal drop herself.
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