From Publishers Weekly
In his long-running saga of the Manticoran Space Navy and its battles (War of Honor, etc.), Weber has chronicled the career of Honor Harrington, a distaff Horatio Hornblower transplanted into a futuristic conflict based loosely on the Napoleonic wars. These hugely entertaining and clever adventures are the very epitome of space opera, but their emphasis on one officer's contribution tends to give a lopsided view of how a military organization fights. In his rousing second Honorverse novel (after 2003's Crown of Slaves, coauthored with Eric Flint), Weber focuses on how each member of a unit contributes to the mission's success through teamwork, discipline and individual initiative. A scratch task force is dispatched to a series of fringe systems that have petitioned to join the Manticoran Space Nation. What is supposed to be a relatively easy assignment to a sector far from the front lines of the renewed Havenite War is soon complicated both by terrorists who oppose the annexation and by corrupt elements of the Solarian League—the major power in Weber's universe—who don't want the stiff-necked Manties sniffing around their highly illegal (and lucrative) genetic slave trade. Weber emphasizes the role that tradition plays in inspiring our lads and lasses in uniform, reminding the reader that a hero can be anyone who does his or her job with honor, commitment and skill. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Book Description
The Star Kingdom has a new generation of officers! And this elite group hand-picked and trained by Honor Harrington herself is going to be needed immediately, as their first assignment turns out to be more dangerous than anyone expected. What was supposed to be a quiet outpost, far from the blazing conflict between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven has actually been targeted by an unholy alliance between the slaveholders of Manpower, the rival star kingdoms of Mesa and Monica, and the bureaucrats of the Solarian League. The alliance stands to benefit if the Havenites defeat Manticore, and are preparing for a surprise attack from the rear to divide Manticore's forces, which are already strained nearly to their limits. With their captain, the young Manticoran officers will risk their careers, if not their lives, on an unauthorized mission to expose and counter the threat to their Star Kingdom. Follow their journey as they show what they're made of as New York Times best-selling author David Weber begins a new series that will be a must for the hundreds of thousands of Honor Harrington fans.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
The Shadow of Saganami marks the beginning of a new series by David Weber featuring members of the graduating class of Saganami Island, the Royal Manticoran Navy's academy, handpicked by Honor Harrington to continue the Star Kingdom of Manticore's fight against its myriad enemies.

The novel revolves primarily around five recent academy graduates assigned to HMS Hexapuma, a state-of-the-art heavy cruiser assigned to the remote Talbott Cluster. The untested midshipmen and -women are somewhat disappointed to be assigned so far away from the action (the Star Kingdom is at war with the People's Republic of Haven), but the situation in the Cluster is deceptive. Although the governments of the Cluster have agreed to join the Star Kingdom, pockets of revolutionaries have begun to murder innocents en masse on planets in the Cluster. When the captain of the Hexapuma uncovers a connection between the terrorists and rival star kingdoms, all hell breaks loose.

Weber has been called the Master of Military Science Fiction and his bestselling Honor Harrington series has gone a long way in redefining the subgenre. Not only does the saga feature a plethora of female protagonists -- a dramatic departure from traditional military sci-fi -- but the sheer scope of Weber's "Honorverse" is breathtakingly huge. Ten novels and numerous short-story anthologies are just the tip of the thematic iceberg of potential plotlines Weber can explore in this massive universe. The Shadow of Saganami -- with a cast of literally hundreds of characters and dozens of tangled political subplots -- proves once again that the master of the military space opera is still in top form. Paul Goat Allen

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The Star Kingdom has a new generation of officers! And this elite group hand-picked and trained by Honor Harrington herself is going to be needed immediately, as their first assignment turns out to be more dangerous than anyone expected. What was supposed to be a quiet outpost, far from the blazing conflict between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven has actually been targeted by an unholy alliance between the slaveholders of Manpower, the rival star kingdoms of Mesa and Monica, and the bureaucrats of the Solarian League. The alliance stands to benefit if the Havenites defeat Manticore, and are preparing for a surprise attack from the rear to divide Manticore's forces, which are already strained nearly to their limits. With their captain, the young Manticoran officers will risk their careers, if not their lives, on an unauthorized mission to expose and counter the threat to their Star Kingdom. Follow their journey as they show what they're made of as New York Times best-selling author David Weber begins a new series that will be a must for the hundreds of thousands of Honor Harrington fans.

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