Earn Some Golden Harbor (Lt. Leary, #5) Scripted By David Drake Shared As Electronic Format

can I not love a series that features a sharpshooting librarian whose information retrieval and organization skills save the day With excellent battle scenes and a wellrealized world, this series is good fun.
This fifth installation finds Daniel and Adele attempting to play politics with deadly stakes, Rebekka
Did not finish it due to sheer repetitious boredom, Atpages in, something interesting should happen, In fairness, I have not read any of the previous volumes either, Still, there seems to be no character development in this novel at all, just a load of politics involving planets that are not well described with many minor characters and the same repetitious descriptions of the main characters over and over and over.
To write this all I would have to do is pick my event for each chapter "Mr Leary vists some evil men" and then write, "Daniel wore his second best dress blues and grinned brightly, Adele had already brought out her data unit from its special pocket and her wands were dancing, she smiled because she was almost happy although she could never be happy because her family was all dead and their heads had been displayed on founders rock, Tovera smiled because she was a dangerous sociopath and reached into her suitcase to caress her weapon, Hogg said something insulting and spit, Woetjans

bellowed and spit, no one trusted the wogs and everyone yelled 'For the Cissy!'" There is also a great deal of description about space ships setting sail and lifting off, if you like that sort of thing.
This series continues to be enjoyable, Good space battles, believable "third world" governments and officials, Daniel is sent off to aid an "ally" of his home planet, As usual, the Alliance is behind troubles stirred up in these backwater planets and Daniel has to save the day, This book featured more ground based combat and a little less space combat than the previous novels, This is a good thing since Drake truly excels at describing combat,th reread. Another enjoyable installation in this fine series, Daniel Leary has been promoted to Commander, but he's not a favorite of the Admiral now on charge of RCN operations, So, instead of being assigned to active combat in the war with the Alliance, he is sent off as a advisor to Bennaria, a world protesting the invasion of nearby Dunbar's World by Pellegrino.
Leary again has has the Princess Cecile though officially he's just a passenger, with Elspeth Vesey, one of his former midshipmen, now in command,

Leary finds a complex situation, Although nominally an advisor, he soon decides he must free Dunbar's World, for otherwise the Alliance will soon come in and take charge, And to succeed, he must both outsmart the Bennarian politicians who want the invasion to succeed, and defeat an entrenched force defended with a plasma cannon when the Cecile has no missiles.


This is another good entry in the series, I continue to want to read more about Leary, Mundy, and the other characters we've come to know in the crew, I enjoy this space opera series, I lost my place in it so I wound up rereading this one, OH NOES NOT EXTRA SPACE OPERA so terribles,
Actually I didn't mind at all, I had a bit of trouble focusing on this one, but that's likely my fault, and not David Drake's,

The plot is more complex and intricate than previous entries in the series, but there seemed to be less character development than before, and while the plot mechanics got into motion, there was one aspect of it that was barely touched upon which may have been Drake's intent, but I found somewhat frustrating.
I was hoping that the invaders' side would be explored to some extent read too many of Poul Anderson's Flandry stories, I guess, and it wasn't really,

Even so, Another solid entry in a thoroughly enjoyable series, The tyrannical Alliance continues its war against the Republic of Cinnabar, and Daniel Leary, newly promoted to Commander, and his crew have a new mission: Stop Dunbar's World from falling to an invasion by the planet Pellegrino.
Nataniel Arruns, son of the dictator of Pellegrino, has landed with a large contingent, intending to set himself up as the ruling warlord, with the planet's population becoming workersserfsof the Pellegrinian overlords.
And Dunbar's world has no more than their local police force to oppose him, Leary again commands the corvette Princess Cecile, but on this mission her missile tubes are empty, Only one man is in a position to aid Leary, but the rich and powerful would rather see him fail than succeed in stopping the invasion, Leary must somehow overcome a large entrenched force on an island defended by powerful plasma cannon and shipkilling missiles and backed up by a heavily armed warship in orbit, all while commanding only a small and virtually unarmed spacecraft.
But Leary again has the help of Signals Officer Adele Mundy, who can make computer networks do the apparently impossible, Leary, Mundy and the crew of the Princess Cecile have gone up against impossible odds before, . . and their opponents in those victorious missions are still wondering just what hit them, As I was reading this, I tried to determine just what it is that makes this series so enjoyable, Its hard to put a finger on, OK, its based on a naval adventure series, this is old news by now, Drake, however, seems to be basing his scenarios, both political and military, on historic real world events, albeit very obscure ones, This means that the political and military dynamics of the series are at least grounded in some form of realism, even though it is a Science Fiction series.
The books seem to follow a sort of formula as well, The first half of each novel is leisurely paced and this is where the pieces are moved around the board and the background is established, The second half is where the sparks fly, of course, and there is action and brilliant tactics aplenty, as Daniel Leary outwits the inevitably overwhelming odds in the, by now expected, epic space showdown or two.
There is ground combat as well, although in all fairness these novels aren't saturated with action like some other military themed Science Fiction, There is a lot of pomp and gungho attitude on display, but it all seems to add to the almost “festival” atmosphere of the novels, You have to have a sense of humour to get the most out of the experience, Despite this, things often get pretty violent and gruesome deaths are not uncommon, Even the Sissies are not exempt,

Correct me if Im wrong, but if memory serves this is the first RCN / Leary novel that introduces nonhuman characters, Specifically, a snakelike humanoid alien, but there are some other references as well, Up to this point, this was an alienfree, or humansonly, series, Im hoping to see this developed further as the series progresses,

The novel itself is, as always, a great read, The secondary characters like Hogg, Tovera amp Fallert are entertaining to a form of art, As of my writing this, there are nine books in this series, of which this is book five, This means that you are nine books behind, So start reading!
A good installment in this series by David Drake, This story focuses a bit more on Adele Mundy and her reactions to events and the actions she must take, As is usual, Daniel Leary, Adele Mundy, and their crew of RCN sailors must face numerically superior forces and outwit and outfight them to complete their mission, Lt. Leary, sans ship, is sent to Ganpats Reach as an advisor, His mission is to untangle a messy intersystem invasion that threatens the interests of a Cinnabar ally, Conveniently, he can hire his own former ship, the Princess Cecile, and most of the Sissies, to convey him, On arrival, he finds a complex web of intrigue and machinations,

I was rather disappointed by this installment, While it was entertaining enough to keep me going, the plot felt haphazard and overcomplex, The three system polities involved werent sufficiently fleshed out, and I was often confused about who did what and to whom, Individual scenes were top notch as usual, but the arc of the plot was muddled,

sitelink books. rosboch. net/p I'm going to post this on every book review of Leary: Drake repeats himself continually within the Leary books and also within each book itself, YES! We get it the main characters have had some messed up things in their lives, You've told us at leasttimes within each book, Can we move on now!

Only reason I keep reading these is I want to find out how the characters progress, Not that there seems to be much character progression as they all seem kind of stuck in their patterns, but there's hope! Maybe things will change with the next book.
The fifth in a science fiction naval adventure series but the first I've read, Here, commander Daniel Leary and his hacker signal officer Adele Mundy ship out to halt an invasion with a small ship with empty torpedo bays and, in addition, must deal with the politics of a corrupt slaver world they are supposed to be helping which does not want to help them.
I thought the characters were thin and the dialogue trite and would have given it two except the plot was interesting and the descriptions of the hardware good especially the star ships which use rigged sails to navigate between pocket universes to get around the speedoflight problem.
This really dragged for me, but if you were reading large chunks in one sitting the overdetail faded into the background a bit, Slips right into the mold left by past books, Which isnt a problem but isnt going to lead to unexpected greatness, Which isnt a problem either, If you like consistency of characters a dab of action and a hint of the Napoleonic Wars in space this whole series is for you, .