RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Elizabeth Moon
BAEN Books, 1999
ISBN:0-671-57841-3 (paperback)
The Serrano Legacy, an entertaining SF sequence with strong female leads and a realistic
space-military flavor, began with Hunting Party. Young lieutenant Esmay Suiza came to center
stage in book 4: Rules of Engagement is book 5, continuing her story.
Suiza may be a fine leader and tactician, but she doesn't know how to handle falling for Ensign Barin
Serrano, a man she outranks. Frictions in command training school worsen when well-born beauty
Brun makes a play for Serrano: Suiza's explosion of temper blights her career. Then Brun falls into
the hands of the series' most plausibly nasty villains to date, a murderous, Bible-thumping militia that
controls several planets where women are kept down and--if they protest--are surgically deprived
of their voices....
The next and final volume is Change of Command.
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