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The Shadow of Saganami

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The Shadow of Saganami is the first book of the Honorverse sub-series Saganami Island, written by David Weber. It was first published in 2004.

Timeframe: 1920 PD - 1921 PD

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The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami Island, the Royal Manticoran Navy's academy, are going straight from the classroom to the blazing reality of all-out war.
Except for the midshipmen assigned to the heavy cruiser HMS Hexapuma, that is. They're being assigned to the Talbott Cluster, an out of the way backwater, far from the battle front. The most they can look forward to is the capture of the occasional pirate cruiser and the boring duty of supporting the Cluster's peaceful integration with the Star Kingdom at the freely expressed will of eighty percent of the Cluster's citizens. With a captain who may have seen too much of war and a station commander who isn't precisely noted for his brilliant and insightful command style, it isn't exactly what the students of Honor Harrington, the "Salamander," expected.
But things aren't as simple - or tranquil - as they appear. The "pirates" they encounter aren't what they seem, and the "peaceful integration" they expected turns into something very different. A powerful alliance of corrupt Solarian League bureaucrats and ruthless interstellar corporations is determined to prevent the Cluster's annexation by the Star Kingdom ... by any means necessary. Pirates, terrorists, genetic slavers, smuggled weapons, long-standing personal hatreds, and a vicious alliance of corporate greed, bureaucratic arrogance, and a corrupt local star nation with a powerful fleet, are all coming together, and only Hexapuma, her war-weary captain, and Honor Harrington's students stand in the path.
They have only one thing to support and guide them: the tradition of Saganami. The tradition that sometimes a Queen's officer's duty is to face impossible odds ... and die fighting.

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George Adolfsson | Joanna Agnelli | Hamish Alexander | William Alexander | Joachim Alquezar | Ito Anders | Franz Anhier | Aldona Anisimovna | George Antrim | Annemarie Atkinson | Mira Badmachin| Guthrie Bagwell | Trevor Bannister | Brigita Basaricek | Isabel Bardasano | Bennington | Duan Binyan | Alvin Bjornstad | Gregoire Bourmont | Aranka Budak | Kathleen Burke | Lucien Cortez | Andrea Duncan | Queen Elizabeth III | Ulrike Eichbauer | Ansten FitzGerald | Richard Gaunt | Damien Harahap | Honor Harrington | Naomi Kaplan | Angelique Kelso | Augustus Khumalo | Nicola Martinovic | Estelle Matsuko | Agnes Nordbrandt | Beatrice McDermott | Vuk Rajkovic | Mark Sarnow | Victoria Saunders | Aivars Terekhov | Aleksandra Tonkovic | Bernardus Van Dort | Helen Zilwicki

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Battle of Nuncio | Freedom Alliance of Kornati | Karlovac terror attacks | Kornatian National Redemption Party | Kornatian Reconciliation Party | Monica System | Montana System | Nuncio System | Planetary President of Kornati | Rembrandt System | Rembrandt Trade Union | State Security Naval Forces | Talbott Cluster


Main Honor Harrington series
HH1 On Basilisk Station HH7 In Enemy Hands
HH2 The Honor of the Queen HH8 Echoes of Honor
HH3 The Short Victorious War HH9 Ashes of Victory
HH4 Field of Dishonor HH10 War of Honor
HH5 Flag in Exile HH11 At All Costs
HH6 Honor Among Enemies HH12 Mission of Honor
Spin off Series
Wages of Sin Saganami Island
WS1 Crown of Slaves SI1 The Shadow of Saganami
WS2 Torch of Freedom SI2 Storm from the Shadows
Anthologies
HHA1 More Than Honor HHA3 Changer of Worlds
HHA2 Worlds of Honor HHA4 The Service of the Sword
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