Business is war, and business is booming.

Economic competition has escalated into a full scale galactic conflict, and the salvage marines are pulling hard duty at the center of the catastrophe. All around them vast armies of conscripts, convicts, and contractors are fighting their way across hostile alien worlds and through the cold void of space at the will of their corporate masters.

Whether the marines are boldly piloting their scrap wagons through the debris fields of defeated battle fleets one step ahead of deadly slave traders, speeding in makeshift boats across a backwater planet towards a bloody conflict with the creatures that lurk just beneath the surface, or storming the trenches of a tomb world defended by pitiless mercenaries, everything is a race against other violent factions looking to cash in.

Samuel Hyst is surviving the war one day at a time, though while he is away at war his family must contend with new enemies and dangers of their own, and to reach them he will join a revolution.

The Hound Bridget ban has vanished and the Kennel (the mysterious superspy

agency) has given up looking for her. But her daughter, the harper Mearana, has

not, and she has convinced the scarred man, Donovan, to aid in her search.But Donovan’s mind has been shattered by Those of Name, the rulers of the

Confederacy, and no fewer than seven quarreling personalities now inhabit his

skull. How can he hope to see Mearana safely through her quest?Together, they follow Bridget ban’s trail to the raw worlds of the frontier,

edging ever closer to the de-civilized and barbarian planets of the Wild. Along

the way, they encounter evidence that they too are being followed—by a deadly

agent of Those of Name.From BooklistOn the harper Mearana’s home planet, up Jim

River is a saying indicating a journey ever further into danger and the

unknown. Mearana’s mother, Bridget ban, has disappeared on mysterious business.

Even the Kennel, her employer and one of the galaxy’s two sources of secret

agents, didn’t know what she was looking for or where she went. Mearana is

determined, though, to discover her mother’s fate. She manages to convince the

scarred man, the Fudir, who was once Donovan but became six or seven

personalities after a botched experiment by Those of Name, to join her out of a

sense of nostalgia. The worlds inhabited by these people are sufficient reason

to read the novel. The extrapolations of linguistic drift and remnants of

ancient history that Flynn conjures constitute a fascinating story in

themselves. Adding to them a tense and thrilling search from the bar on Jehovah

to the very Wild itself, through strange cultures and dangerous ports, just

makes the book all the more engaging.

The worst part about having it all, is having it all taken away.

Thirty years after the events in the Solar system, the Empire had entered a time of expansion and advancement. Six hundred light years from Earth, humanity starts again. But, their safety and peace are threatened when a hostile force is detected in one of the systems close to the Empire’s border.The Empire needs to prepare for war, and perhaps even strike first in order to protect its people that now include Nel – aliens from the colony world of Nuva.Other races and other events interfere with the plans, and Emperor Tomas Klein is forced to make decisions that could affect millions.Adrian Farkas – now leading one of the six Clans of the Empire – prepares his forces for war. New technologies are put to the test. New discoveries and realizations come to the surface as the Empire goes to war.

Erasi and the Shara Daim are at war.The Shara Daim Legions stopped the Erasi fleets from pushing further into their territory, and with the invasion halted a lull in the war gives the Empire time to seek a diplomatic solution on behalf of their new ally. But the Erasi are stalling the diplomatic talks, and the Shara Daim are not willing to wait for long before launching an offensive to take back their systems. The Erasi are master manipulators, and while they feign interest in a peaceful resolution, a massive force from their core is gathering, commanded by one of the founders of the Erasi.Anessa, ruler of the Shara Daim, and Adrian, Lord Sentinel of the Empire, are forced to plan for a defense against a force that outnumbers them almost three to one. Hoping to stall the Erasi advance long enough for their advanced technology to make a difference.What War Had Wrought is book 7 in the “Rise of the Empire” series, an epic story that follows humanity as it grows from a single world to ultimately becoming a galaxy wide empire.

“As long as there is money to be made, there will be Wildcatters.”— Dave DuncanThroughout human history wildcatters, the first great explorers and prospectors to lay claim to newly discovered lands, have marched to the beat of a different drummer — motivated by a deep yearning to be the first to walk on uncharted land and benefit from treasures yet to be discovered.In the future, wildcatters in space will travel to exoplanets, located in The Big Nothing, to search for new chemicals which, when transformed into pharmaceuticals, might bring untold wealth and fame to the individuals and corporations that stake their claim for exclusive exploitation rights.Such is the quest of the crew of the independent starship Golden Hind, whose mission is to travel a year and a half to “Cacafuego”, beat the larger corporations to the exoplanets’ resources, and strike it rich for themselves.But will a yellow warning flag, already planted above the planet, stop them? Or will the Golden Hind’s prospector foray to the planet’s surface, possibly never to return alive?Wildcatter is a raucous tale of mystery, greed and passion, told by master story teller Dave Duncan, once himself a real wildcatter!Literary awards:ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Nominee for Adult Science Fiction (2012).