The Bastard Legion: Friendly Fire

<P><B><I>High octane SF adventure with Smith''s trademark twist - Jamie Sawyer</I></B><br><B><br>In FRIENDLY FIRE, the Bastard Legion are hired to pull off a daring power-armoured heist of propriety tech. <br><br>Getting the tech will be hard. Getting off the planet, deadly.</B><br><br>Four hundred years in the future, the most dangerous criminals are kept in suspended animation aboard prison ships and "rehabilitated" in a shared virtual reality environment. But Miska Storrow, a thief and hacker with a background in black ops, has stolen one of these ships, the <I>Hangman''s Daughter</I>, and made it her own. Controlled by explosive collars and trained in virtual reality by the electronic ghost of a dead marine sergeant, the thieves, gangsters, murderers, and worse are transformed into Miska''s own private indentured army: the Bastard Legion.</P>