The Coward's Option
Author | : Adam-Troy Castro |
Publisher | : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2017-08-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781625672889 |
ISBN-13 | : 1625672888 |
Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Coward's Option written by Adam-Troy Castro and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two stories from the early years of Andrea Cort, later the heroine of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel, Emissaries from the Dead. “The Coward’s Option”: On the hostile home-world of the Caith, Andrea Cort has been assigned the case of a murderer who’s been condemned to a horrible death. All legal options have been exhausted, but the Caith offer a rarely-used alternative to execution, one that purports to ensure that the accused will never break the law again. Alas, it’s not so much another chance at life, but deliverance into a hell far worse than mere death... “Tasha’s Fail-Safe”: Once, she and Andrea Cort hated each other. Now, the victim of a savage assassination attempt by a traitor to the Confederacy, she lies in an unresponsive state, the identity of her assailant locked inside her head. Can Andrea penetrate a vital secret she never even knew existed? Other Andrea Cort stories available from JABberwocky: With Unclean Hands Unseen Demons