Undercurrents

Trade paperback original, and #2 in the science fiction adventure Orphan&;s Legacy series, a saga of spy games and military action on an interplanetary scale. Ace intelligence operative Lt. Jazen Parker must take out a Nazi-like regime on a quarantined space habitat where he&;s limited to a War War II technological level and his own smarts, grit and determination.

#2 in the hard-hitting military science fiction Orphan&;s Legacy series. Ace intelligence operative Lt. Jazen Parker parachutes into Tressel, a planet which resembles Earth in its Paleozoic era, on a mission to bring down the local politicos. He quickly realizes he&;s been handed a near-impossible task. Tressel is a politically-quarantined nightmare world with a culture confined to iron rivet technology and a ruling regime a bit to the right of Heinrich Himmler. Jazen&;s inclined to abandon this particular hellhole to its ways--that is, until he uncovers a plot afoot that will throw a five hundred-planet alliance into the death-throes of anarchy.

So the local Nazis must go. Unfortunately, all Jazen&;s got to work with is a handful of rust-bucket tanks, a retread rebellion, and two strong, beautiful women who love him, but think he&;s tilting at windmills and is about to get himself killed. What they don&;t know is, once committed, Jazen Parker is the best there is when it comes to getting the dirty job done on the ground. It&;s the local bullies who are about to be taught a lesson in losing.

About Robert Buettner:

&;Buettner goes well beyond . . . military science fiction . . . he understands . . . living as a soldier &; the boredom punctuated by terror, the constant anxiety and self-doubt, the random chaos that battle always is, and the emotional glue that holds together people who may have nothing in common except absolute responsibility for one another's lives.&; &;Joe Haldeman, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author

&;[O]nce in a while . . . a contemporary author penetrates to the heart of Heinlein's vision . . . to replicate the master's effects. . . . [O]ne such book [is] Robert Buettner's Orphanage.&; &; The Washington Post

&;Buettner shows the Heinlein touch.&; &;Denver Post