Engaging the Enemy, Elizabeth Moon
Engaging the Enemy, Elizabeth Moon
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Engaging the Enemy

Author: Elizabeth Moon

Narrator: Cynthia Holloway

Unabridged: 15 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/15/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

The brilliantly unorthodox Kylara Vatta—black-sheep scion of Vatta Transport Ltd., one of the galaxy's wealthiest merchant houses—is a heroine like no other, blessed with a killer instinct both for business and for battle. Now, in the aftermath of cold-blooded assassinations that have left her parents dead and the Vatta shipping empire shattered, Kylara faces her greatest challenge yet.

There is a time for grief and a time for revenge. This is decidedly the latter. Placing her cousin Stella in command of the trading vessel Gary Tobai, Ky embarks aboard the captured pirate ship Fair Kaleen on a twofold mission: to salvage the family business and to punish those responsible for the killings...before they strike again.
Since the network providing instantaneous communication between star systems has been sabotaged, news is hard to come by and available information impossible to trust. But as she travels from system to system, with Stella a step behind, Ky pieces together the clues and discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking audacity, and utter ruthlessness.

The only hope the independent systems and merchants have against this powerful enemy is to band together. Unfortunately, because she commands a ship known to belong to a notorious pirate—her own relative Osman Vatta, whom she killed for his part in her parents' deaths—Ky is met with suspicion, if not outright hostility. Rumors swirl about her intent and even her very identity. Soon, even Stella begins to question her cousin's decisions and her authority to make them.

Meanwhile, the conspiracy Ky hunts is hunting her in turn, with agents insinuated into every space station, every planetary government, every arm of the military, and every merchant house—including her own. Before she can take the fight to the enemy, Kylara must survive a deadly minefield of deception and betrayal.

About Elizabeth Moon

Elizabeth Moon is the author of many novels, including Victory Conditions, Command Decision, Engaging the Enemy, Marque and Reprisal, Trading in Danger, the Nebula Award winner The Speed of Dark, and Remnant Population, a Hugo Award finalist. After earning a degree in history from Rice University, Moon went on to obtain a degree in biology from the University of Texas, Austin. She lives in Florence, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 02, 2022

While I would like to say I have no complaints about the series, I do, but definitely not for the overall arch of the tale. It's bold as brass space opera, trying to get enough resources and allies to fight a pirate fleet, dealing with others' incompetence, and squeaking by with your own verve. In ot......more

Goodreads review by Kara on December 23, 2017

I want to give this entire series 5 stars even though I probably won’t give any of its individual instalments that rating. Does that make sense? Vatta’s War is just such a fun and compelling space opera with a strong central character, and Elizabeth Moon is a great storyteller. I say this while simu......more

Goodreads review by Kara on April 06, 2018

“Engaging the Enemy (Vatta’s War #3)” continues the military scifi adventure story of Ky Vatta, her friends & family, and her shipmates as Ky and cousin Stella work to rebuild Vatta Enterprises, and to find the enemies who have created interstellar death and destruction. The amount of detail in the b......more

Goodreads review by Jim on December 08, 2020

Whoops! I got so busy finishing up the books that I forgot to review this one. It's good! There's nothing superb or life changing about it, just an excellent space opera that grabs my interest a bit more with each book, so read them in order. The first stood alone, but had enough unfinished threads......more

Goodreads review by Katyana on January 05, 2025

I really liked this one, though I have to say, I hate Stella. She is such an absolutely entitled little whiny princess in this book that it has wrecked her character forever, imo. I hope she gets assassinated sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, that also means (view spoiler)[her being made CEO of Vatta at the (hide spoiler)]......more