Victory Conditions, Elizabeth Moon
Victory Conditions, Elizabeth Moon
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Victory Conditions

Author: Elizabeth Moon

Narrator: Cynthia Holloway

Unabridged: 15 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/02/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

For Kylara Vatta, it's not just about liberating the star systems subjugated by Gammis Turek and defending the rest of the galaxy's freedom. There is also a score to be settled and payback to be meted out for the obliteration of the Vatta Transport dynasty...and the slaughter of Ky's family. But the enemy have their own escalation efforts under way—including the placement of covert agents among the allies with whom Ky and the surviving Vattas are collaborating in the war effort. And when a spy ring linked to a wealthy businessman is exposed, a cracked pirate code reveals a galaxy-wide conspiracy fueling the proliferation of Turek's warship fleet.

Matching the invaders' swelling firepower will mean marshaling an armada of battle-ready ships for Ky to lead into combat. But a violent skirmish leaves Ky reeling—and presumed dead by her enemies. Now, as Turek readies an all-out attack on the Nexus system—a key conquest that could seal the rest of the galaxy's doom—Ky must rally to the challenge, draw upon every last reserve of her strategic skills, and reach deep if she is to tear from the ashes of tragedy her most decisive victory.

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

Genre: Space Opera/Military Sci Fi This is probably the weakest book of the Vatta’s War series, it wrapped everything up all neat and tidy but it took too many short-cuts. Despite the relationship between Gammis Turek (pirate leader) and Lew Parmina (former head of ISC, biggest company in the known u......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

A great end to a good Space Opera. It’s true, though, that all five of these books make up a single long novel. No doubt about it. From the abuse in the first to the returned humiliation in the last, from starting with almost nothing to being the top of the game, the whole sequence satisfies. If you......more

Goodreads review by Kara

“Victory Conditions (Vatta’s War #5)” concludes the epic military scifi adventure story of Ky Vatta as she builds a unified space force to stand against pirates, and as her friends and family try to rebuild the economic empires of Vatta and InterStellar Communications Corporation (ISC) . Politics, pe......more

Somewhere - belatedly - around the halfway mark of Victory Conditions, I started wondering what exactly I was trying to prove by slogging through this series. I'd already given it a second and third chance to redeem itself, and each book seemed worse than the one before: characters behaved erratical......more