A Few Good Men

Original trade paperback, sequel to Darkship Renegades and Darkship Thieves.  The son of a ruler on Earth instigates civil war and revolution when he attempts to take the place of his assassinated father and uncovers a terrible secret that has been used to enslave humanity.The Son Also Rises…On a near future Earth, Good Man does not mean good at all.  Instead, the term signifies a member of the ruling class, and what it takes to become a good man and to hold onto power is downright evil.  Now a conspiracy hundreds of years in the making is about to be brought to light when the imprisoned son of the Good Man of Olympic Seacity escapes from his solitary confinement cell and returns to find his father assassinated.But when Luce Keeva attempts to take hold of the reins of power, he finds that not all is as it seems, that a plot for his own imminent murder is afoot—and that a worldwide conflagration looms.  It is a war of revolution, and a shadowy group known as the Sons of Liberty may prove to be Luce’s only ally in a fight to throw off an evil from the past that has enslaved humanity for generations.Sequel to Sarah A. Hoyt’s award-winning Darkship Thieves, and Darkship Renegades, this is Book One in the Earth’s Revolution saga.About the Darkship series:"First-rate space opera with a moral lesson.  You won't be disappointed."—Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.com “[A] tour de force: logical, built from assumptions with no contradictions . . . gripping.”–Jerry Pournelle“[Three Musketeers creator] Alexander Dumas would give [Sarah A. Hoyt] a thumbs up.”–Steve Forbes “[F]anciful and charming.” –Library Journal“Exceptional, wonderful and enormously entertaining.” –BooklistAbout the AuthorSarah A. Hoyt is the author of a dozen novels in various genres, including Darkship Thieves, The Gentleman Takes a Chance and Draw One in the Dark for Baen, as well as her acclaimed Shakespearean fantasy series, which started with the Mythopoeic award finalist, Ill Met by Moonlight. An avid history buff and longtime reader of sci-fi, fantasy, and mysteries, Hoyt has published over three dozen short stories in esteemed magazines such as Asimov's, Analog,Amazing and Weird Tales, as well as several anthologies. She lives in Colorado with her husband, two teen boys and a pride of cats.