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Shadow of Victory is the latest Saganami Island book and was released on November 1st, 2016. eARC was released on October 29th, 2016.
Timeframe: February 1921 PD - October 1922 PD
Cover Summary
- The Mesan Alignment is revealed, and, for Honor Harrington and the Manticoran Star Kingdom, this means war!
- Unintended Consequences
- Sometimes things don't work out exactly as planned.
- The Mesan Alignment has a plan—one it's been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically improve the human race—its way.
- Until recently, things have gone pretty much as scheduled, but then the Alignment hit a minor bump in the road called the Star Empire of Manticore. So the Alignment engineered a war between the Solarian League, the biggest and most formidable interstellar power in human history. To help push things along, the Alignment launched a devastating sneak attack which destroyed the Royal Manticoran Navy's industrial infrastructure.
- And in order to undercut Manticore's galaxy-wide reputation as a star nation of its word, it launched Operation Janus—a false-flag covert operation to encourage rebellions it knows will fail by promising Manticoran support. The twin purposes are to harden Solarian determination to destroy the Star Empire once and for all, and to devastate the Star Empire's reputation with the rest of the galaxy.
- But even the best laid plans can have unintended consequences, and one of those consequences in this case may just be a new dawn of freedom for oppressed star nations everywhere.
Plot
The book describes the Mesan operation Janus from beginning to its end, from viewpoint of all the participants - Manticoran, Mayan, Mesan, Verge 'resistance' and OFS. It also details the Alignment evacuation of Mesa and its PR strike against Manticore. Honor Harrington makes only a cameo appearance.
Background
This book confirms the Yawata strike survival of following characters: Ginger Lewis, Aubrey Wanderman, and Paulo d'Arezzo. Several Alignment characters also die.
References
Characters
Brandon Grant | Markus Bochart | Franz Gillespie | Rufino Chernyshev | Wiktoria Lewandowska | Kazimierz Lukazewski | Ludwik Kezczynski | Szymon Ziomkowski | Tomasz Szponder | Ludwika Sosabowska | Wincenty Malakowski | Grzegorz Zielinski | Justyna Pokriefke | Agnieszka Krzywicka | Teofil Strenk | Hieronim Mazur | Jaroslaw Kotarski | Bjørn Kudzinowski | Brigadier Pawlikowski | Quentin O'Malley | Guthrie Bagwell | Augustus Khumalo | Victoria Saunders | Ambrose Chandler | Loretta Shoupe | Amandine Corvisart | Baroness Medusa (Estelle Matsuko) | Blake Bonifacio | Roberto Tyler | Agnes Nordbrandt | Captain ... Kurtz | Adam Šiml | Josephine Siminetti | Jan Cabrnoch | Daniel Kápička | Dalibor Čáp | Luis Verner | Zdeněk Vilušínský | Zuzana Žďárská | Roman Hruška | Isabel Bardasano | Ulrike Eichbauer | Damien Harahap | Volkhart Kalokainos | Francisca Yucel | Ginger Lewis | Aubrey Wanderman | Helen Zilwicki | Paulo d'Arezzo | Helga Boltitz | Aivars Terekhov | Michelle Henke
Starships
HMS Charles Ward
Planets
Chotěboř (Kumang system)
Seraphim
Smoking Frog
Swallow
Nations
Mesa | Star Empire of Manticore | Solarian League
Other
Operation Janus | Mesan Alignment
External links
- Chapter One at Weber Forums [1]
| Honorverse Non-Fiction | |||
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| Book Companions | Ad Astra Companions | ||
| HOS | House of Steel Companion | SOTF | Ships of the Fleet Calendars |
| HOSH | House of Shadows Companion | SITS | Saganami Island Tactical Simulator |
| HOL | House of Lies Companion | ||
| Jayne's Intelligence Review | Jayne's Fighting Ships of the Galaxy | ||
| JIR1 | The Royal Manticoran Navy | SB1 | Ship Book 1: The Havenite Sector |
| JIR2 | The Havenite Republican Navy | SB2 | Ship Book 2: The Silesian Confederacy |
| JIR3 | The Silesian Confederate Navy | SB3 | Ship Book 3: The Short Victorious War |