Download or read book Shooting the Rift written by Alex Stewart and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISOWNED IN A HARSH GALAXY Cast out by his family and exiled from the Rimward Commonwealth, Simon Forrester must make a new life for himself as an apprentice to the powerful Commerce Guild. But others aboard the merchant vessel Stacked Deck have a hidden agenda that might lead directly to interstellar war. Now with rising tensions between the Commonwealth and the neighboring League of Democracies threatens to erupt into open war, Simon finds himself forced to choose between old and new loyalties, with the fate of an empire at stake! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).