Odysseus (Spirit of the Bayonet Book 2)

Paul Owens thought the void between Earth and the asteroid belt was far enough to outrun his sins.He was wrong.Six years after Los Olvidados, Paul is serving his sentence aboard the deep space freighter Odysseus — stripped of rank, cut off from everything he loved, and tortured by the memories of Kata and the Ōkami. The plan is simple: survive the voyage. Earn his freedom. Find a way to make Fiona Malloy pay.Then the Odysseus breaks.When catastrophe cripples the ship and the crew begins to die, Paul finds himself alone with Althea — the ship's synthetic counselor, who shouldn't be capable of the kind of loyalty she keeps showing him. As the ship fails and the void closes in, Paul realizes the disaster was no accident. Someone has reached all the way from Earth to the asteroid belt to get to him.Back on Earth, Fiona Malloy hasn't forgotten Paul Owens. She has money, reach, and people willing to do whatever she asks. And she's using all of it. The void between Earth and the belt may be vast, but Fiona has never let distance — or anyone — stand in her way.Paul wants revenge. Fiona wants him gone. The Odysseus is just the beginning.The second book in the Spirit of the Bayonet series, Odysseus is harder, lonelier, and building toward a reckoning that was promised from the first page of Betrayal."To write so well that it affects your readers in a very personal way is a gift... Ted's ability to capture the feel of camaraderie in battle is exceptional.""Unbelievably tense science fiction, with extremely taut dialog.""I finished the book yesterday and bought book three today." Read more