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Il sequel del "Giorno di Colombo". Il colonnello Joe Bishop ha fatto una promessa e ha intenzione di mantenerla, portando nuovamente nello spazio la nave aliena rubata Olandese Volante. Non è d'accordo, però, quando le Nazioni Unite decidono di inviare con lui quasi 70 soldati d'élite delle Operazioni Speciali, piloti straordinari e scienziati. La missione è una folle impresa dalla quale si aspetta che non torneranno mai. Almeno questa volta la Terra è al sicuro, giusto? Non più di tanto.

Colonel Joe Bishop made a promise and he's going to keep it; taking the captured alien starship Flying Dutchman back out. He doesn't agree when the UN decides to send almost 70 elite Special Operations troops, hotshot pilots, and scientists with him; the mission is a fool's errand he doesn't expect to ever return from. At least, this time, the Earth is safe, right? Not so much.

Stavamo combattendo una guerra che non potevamo vincere. E questa era la buona notizia. I ruhar ci colpirono nel Giorno di Colombo. Eccoci là, a vagabondare ignari nel cosmo sulla nostra piccola biglia blu, come i nativi americani nel 1492. Da oltre la linea dell'orizzonte, giunsero navi provenienti da una cultura aggressiva e tecnologicamente avanzata. E BAM! Addio bei vecchi tempi in cui noi umani ci ammazzavamo gli uni con gli altri. 

After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's home world. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans.

The Merry Band of Pirates are in desperate trouble after the end of their last mission, and the real danger to humanity is just getting started. Hostile aliens have discovered there is something odd going on with wormholes in the galaxy, and their investigations could lead to finding a shortcut to Earth....  

After the Renegade mission by the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman, the UN Expeditionary Force thought Earth was safe for hundreds of years, at least. After there was trouble on the home front and the president had to authorize a nuclear strike on an American city, UNEF decided they did need the Merry Band of Pirates again. So, the Flying Dutchman is sent out on a simple recon mission. But for the pirates, nothing is ever simple, and their mission will become Armageddon.

The Merry Band of Pirates offered the bad guys a ceasefire. We won’t mess with them, if they don’t mess with us. Easy, right? No. The aliens chose to do things the hard way. So, the Pirates are racing around the galaxy to clean up the threat to Earth. The infant UN Navy has their own mission with the Alien Legion: Get humanity some allies in the fight. And the Ethics & Compliance Office might have to do something...ethical. Unless they can find a way around it.

While the crew of the starship Flying Dutchman have been trying to assure that hostile aliens do not have access to Earth, the UN Expeditionary Force has been stranded on the planet they nicknamed "Paradise". The Flying Dutchman is headed back out on another mission, and the UN wants the ship to find out the status of the humans on Paradise. But Colonel Joe Bishop warns that they might not like what they find, and they can't do anything about it without endangering Earth.

El segundo volumen de la apabullante saga de ciencia ficción y space opera de Craig Alanson nos trae la hazaña del coronel Joe Bishop, dispuesto a cumplir su promesa de llevar la nave estelar alienígena "Holandés Errante" de regreso a su lugar de origen. Sin embargo, la ONU ha decidido que en su viaje estelar, el coronel Bishop deberá llevar consigo casi 70 tropas de élite de Operaciones Especiales entre pilotos experimentados y científicos.

Peacetime can be a rough adjustment for the battle-hardened Merry Band of Pirates.  

Especially when aliens don’t get the memo that the shooting is over.

United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite expeditionary force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-merry band of pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of light years from home. The ancient alien AI they nicknamed Skippy is apparently dead, and even if they can by some miracle revive him, he might never be the same.

Die Ruhar griffen uns am Columbus Day an. Wir trieben auf unserer kleinen blauen Murmel durch den Kosmos—arglos, wie die amerikanischen Ureinwohner im Jahr 1492. Dann tauchten am Horizont Raumschiffe einer technisch überlegenen Spezies auf. Und—BAM!—war die gute alte Zeit vorbei. Ich verließ meinen Posten bei der US-Army, um fortan im Weltraum zu kämpfen. Nicht gerade ein fairer Kampf. Denn leider waren all unsere Infos Lügen—nichts als Lügen. Der größte Fehler war, überhaupt gegen die Ruhar zu kämpfen. Denn die sind nicht unser Feind, sondern unsere Verbündeten.

Los Rujarras atacaron el Día de Colón. Habíamos navegado con inocencia por el cosmos en nuestra pequeña canica azul, como si fuéramos nativos americanos en 1492. Varias naves aparecieron en el horizonte, representantes de una cultura agresiva y avanzada y, ¡zas!, los viejos días en los que los humanos nos matábamos unos a otros se fueron por el desagüe—en el Día de Colón. Cuando el cielo matutino volvió a parpadear con el salto de las naves de guerra Kristangas que se enfrentaban a los Rujarras, creíamos que estábamos a salvo. Pero mejor empiezo por el principio.

Les Ruhars nous ont attaqués le jour même de Christophe Colomb... On était là, à dériver innocemment dans le cosmos sur notre petite bille bleue, exactement comme les Américains d’origine en 1492. Et voilà qu’à l’horizon avaient surgi des navires d’une civilisation agressive technologiquement supérieure et... BOUM ! Adieu le bon vieux temps. Et me voilà, de combattant de l’armée US au Niger à guerrier du cosmos. Un véritable tissu de mensonges, que tout cela. Nous ne devrions même pas combattre les Ruhars, qui ne sont pas nos ennemis.

Le colonel Joe Bishop a fait une promesse et il compte bien la tenir : ramener le Hollandais Volant, un vaisseau extraterrestre capturé. Il n'est pas d'accord lorsque les Nations unies décident d'envoyer avec lui près de 70 soldats d'élite des opérations spéciales, des pilotes de pointe et des scientifiques ; car la mission est une course sans espoir dont il ne s'attend pas à revenir un jour. Au moins, cette fois, la Terre est saine et sauve, n’est-ce pas ? Et bien pas vraiment…

The elite crew of the pirate ship UNS Flying Dutchman had a simple mission: determining whether the Thuranin are sending another starship to Earth. Along the way, they became sidetracked by securing a future for the UNEF troops on the planet Paradise. When asked whether Earth was now safe, their ancient alien AI responded "Not so much"...now they have to deal with the consequences.

The Alien Legion has a new mission, and this time, they are working for the enemy. Also against the enemy. Like every operation that Emily Perkins plans, it’s complicated. But plans require good intel, and when the plan falls apart, the Mavericks are in freefall.... 

The Wizard's Council of Tarador was supposed to tell young Koren Bladewell that he is a wizard. They were supposed to tell everyone that he is not a jinx, that all the bad things that happen around him are because he can't control the power inside him, power he doesn't know about. The people of his village, even his parents, are afraid of him, afraid he is cursed. That he is a dangerous, evil jinx.

The battle-scarred star carrier Flying Dutchman is finally on her way back to Earth, after an exceptionally successful series of missions that have once again saved the world. The ship needs a serious refit, and her exhausted crew just wants a break from constant clandestine warfare against a vicious and superior enemy. Wishes come true, right? Not for the Merry Band of Pirates.

The remnants of the Expeditionary Force stranded on the alien-controlled planet "Paradise" get a chance to prove themselves, in a simple off-world training mission with a ship full of teenage alien cadets. When the mission goes horribly wrong and the survival of everyone on Paradise is at risk, the Merry Band of Pirates may have to come to the rescue. Unless they get killed first....