Patriots

A brother and sister just entering their twenties, surviving with grit andcourage on a frontier planeton the eve of galactic revolution! Down withthe Empire! David Drake science fiction classic reissued for a young adultaudience 14 and up. THE FRONTIER: TWENTY-FIFTH CENTURY STYLE MarkMaxwell is a young man from Quelhagen, a colonial planet nearly as civilized asEarth herself. He's touring the distant fringes of human settlement to completehis education. Amy Bannock was born on the frontier, but she's beenraised with as much gentility and culture as the environmentpermits. Yerby Bannock, Amy's brother, is a big, powerful sort who isalways cheefuland most happy when he's clearing a room in abrawl. Together the three of them are on hand to protect the raw colonyof Greenwood from speculatorsusing the courts when they can and usingbrute force when that's the only method that works. Brute force is alwaysYerby's method of choice, but he's generally willing to listen to Mark and Amywhen he figures they have a point. Its a story that sweeps fromsprawling farms to courtrooms, from rain-sodden transfer points to luxuryhotels. Conflict may mean a fistfight, a violent kidnapping, or tanks rollingdown the street side by side. But underneath the squabbles andskirmishes, there's the threat of a revolution which will pit the coloniesagainst their mother world, Earth. If revolution comes, Mark, Amy and Yerby willbe in that middle of it too. And the revolution is coming!