The Nathan Daniels Saga: Part 4 by Sam Lippert

Author:Sam Lippert [Lippert, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samuel A. Lippert
Published: 2017-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XXIV

Admiral Sokolov watched the most recent download from Jeremy James’ implant. He was not quite sure what to make of the situation the pompous Free Trader had gotten himself into. The admiral’s finger hovered over the button that would cause the explosive charge at the base of James’ skull to detonate.

Sokolov fought back the urge to punish James’ stupidity. The man had actually done a fairly good job of tracking Daniels and the Princess, so far. It was as if Jeremy James and Nathan Daniels thought exactly alike. Forcing Jeremy into working for him had been looking like one of the best decisions the Admiral had ever made, with James seeming to inch closer and closer to the crew of the Nola.

Then the fiasco of the last twenty-four hours. Jeremy had managed to wrangle the information he needed from that parasite Prescilla Anderson and was about to leave when he actually answered the damn intercom when it buzzed, letting thirteen damnable Verstaten priests onboard his ship. The priests had some sob story about being refugees, but they were able to pay James handsomely for passage to Verstat. Of course, the greedy worm had accepted the cash. The problem with Free Traders is they never passed up the opportunity to make a credit, and charging to ferry thirteen people to a destination that there was a fifty percent chance you were heading for anyway…

“Wait a second,” Sokolov said aloud, moving the finger that had been dangerously close to terminating the lives of Jeremy James, and thirteen Verstaten priests from the detonation button on his console to the controls for video playback. He rewound the video and paused it, framing the face of the priests’ leader on the screen. He could swear he recognized the man, but he was unable to pull up the memory on demand. He keyed in the facial recognition commands.

The computer instantly displayed a match: Omany, mentor and personal bodyguard to Princess Remini of Kalifet. Jeremy James was one lucky bastard! Whatever had transpired to separate the Princess and Omany, they would not stay apart for long. Having the priest aboard meant the Princess was likely to go looking for James.

And to think he had almost pressed the detonate button.

* * *

Devka Jardinay had enjoyed her journey aboard the commercial cruise liner Dismay. Dismay, like most pleasure vessels of the time, was like a small travelling city. Due to the length of transit time between inhabited worlds, even with FTL, most commercial liners harkened back to the romantic period in Old Earth history when her great oceans had to be crossed by ship, with transit taking days, sometimes even a week or longer.

A modern space liner generally carried no fewer than four-thousand passengers, and would make a circuit of ten to twenty inhabited systems, stopping to embark and debark passengers at several ports in each system. A passenger could literally come aboard in one system and leave the ship a year later in the same system, and

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