David Drake’s legendary Raj Whitehall series, stunningly
reborn!
Humanity settled the stars, only to fall into a catastrophic collapse. On
one planet, a single artificial intelligence, a computer program known as
Center, found a military genius of grit and daring in Raj Whitehall, and the
Galactic Republic rose again. But many dark planets remain — planets such
as Duisenberg. Here, a single river cuts through a vast continental desert and a
culture not unlike that of New Kingdom Egypt has developed. But, when a capsule
containing the forbidden metal, plastic, and circuit boards that Zentrum hates
falls from the sky — circuits with secretly stowed away, uploaded versions
of Raj and Center — everything changes! What Raj and Center need now is a
hero to break the Land’s stasis and lead Duisberg back from the galactic
dark ages. Enter Abel Dashian. The son of a local military commander, he is a
brilliant and courageous young man who has lost his mother to a simple bacterial
infection. He is a young man who will dare anything to avenge his mother’s
death and bring about change. He is the Heretic.