Bøger af ROBERT ADRIAN

Sam Austin's dream of colonizing a distant planet seems to have come true. It's the twenty-second century, and Citadel, an earthlike planet located light years from the original home of humanity, is thriving. The colony has survived an alien invasion, and Austin hopes to move forward with peaceful intergalactic trade. Back on Earth, US president Courtney Harrington is losing ground in the polls. In a ploy to improve public opinion, she makes false claims against Austin and Citadel. Harrington convinces the international community that Citadel has the technology-and the intent-to invade Earth. So begins a fight between the old and new guards that could ignite war between the two planets. Austin turns to his friends on Mars for help as his ships are captured by the National Security Authority. Harrington will stop at nothing to reach her ends, even if it means assassinating Austin and sacrificing the lives of millions of her own people. Through it all, the threat of alien invasion remains real. Austin and his compatriots will need both military strength and diplomatic prowess to avoid a catastrophic conflict between Citadel and its mother planet. Target Citadel is the anticipated sequel to Destination Citadel, the first installment of Robert Adrian's Sam Austin Chronicles.

Sam Austin has led a long and storied life. He's been an Apollo astronaut and an inventor. He's served as the president of the United States for ten nonconsecutive terms, which should be impossible. Then again, Sam's an impossible individual-he's over 180 years old, and looks as hale and youthful as he did when he walked on the moon in the early 1970s. The secret to Sam's longevity lies among the stars, and it's to the stars his thoughts always return. Sam's sunk his vast resources into the development of humanity's first functional faster-than-light propulsion system. Now he and a few thousand brave souls prepare to reach Citadel, an Earth-like planet in a distant star system. Citadel represents a great leap forward for mankind, but quickly offers proof old villainies die hard. When betrayal and a botched invasion lead the colonists to declare independence, Sam finds himself the founding father of a new nation-a nation the current US president vehemently opposes. As Citadel takes its first tentative steps toward statehood, all eyes are on the planet. Not all of them are friendly. A few aren't even human.

Ageless astronaut Sam Austin and the settlers of the planet Citadel have a problem. Former US President Courtney Harrington might be disgraced and convicted of war crimes, but she remains a threat to the newly independent settlers. Harrington's looking for the means to gain amnesty for the crimes she committed in Target Citadel, and she thinks the very aliens that almost wiped out Citadel offer the chance she needs. If she can secure advanced alien tech for human use, she's confident she'll walk free. Of course, nothing comes without a price-and the aliens want something in return. Harrington's horrific deal offers up human beings as sacrificial lab rats. Caught up in the deposed president's plot is Sara Albretti, former transport captain and Citadel settler. In the skies beyond Citadel's star system, the long conflict between Harrington and Austin comes to a deadly conclusion. At stake is the future of Citadel-and possibly all of humanity. The next chapter in Robert Adrian's Citadel series, Checkmate Citadel continues Sam Austin's remarkable journey from astronaut to founding father of humanity's newest home-a home under threat from alien and human alike.