The Heretic

David Drakes legendary Raj Whitehall series, stunninglyreborn! Humanity settled the stars, only to fall into a catastrophic collapse. Onone planet, a single artificial intelligence, a computer program known asCenter, found a military genius of grit and daring in Raj Whitehall, and theGalactic Republic rose again. But many dark planets remain planets suchas Duisenberg. Here, a single river cuts through a vast continental desert and aculture not unlike that of New Kingdom Egypt has developed. But, when a capsulecontaining the forbidden metal, plastic, and circuit boards that Zentrum hatesfalls from the sky circuits with secretly stowed away, uploaded versionsof Raj and Center everything changes! What Raj and Center need now is ahero to break the Lands stasis and lead Duisberg back from the galacticdark ages. Enter Abel Dashian. The son of a local military commander, he is abrilliant and courageous young man who has lost his mother to a simple bacterialinfection. He is a young man who will dare anything to avenge his mothersdeath and bring about change. He is the Heretic.