#5 A Call to Insurrection by David Weber, Timothy Zahn, Thomas Pope

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The fourth book is mostly two separate stories that do dovetail in the end. This does build on the previous three books but since it has been about 4 years since the previous one the backstory given during the book was helpful. The Andermani Empire comes calling on a diplomatic mission and they very much want to take Thomas back to meet their Emperor. So Manticore sends him and his half-brother, Gavin the Foreign Secretary to Andermani and things change quickly as soon as they get out of hyper. Now things have changed, and they must find a way to still accomplish their mission. The second plotline has to do with Chomps solving a mystery that everyone is convinced isn’t a mystery at all, just a drunken accident.

An entertaining read and I can’t wait for more in this series because when they do find that wormhole that readers of the Honor books know about, things are going to change for Manticore.

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