The book continues the story perhaps a few years after the last one in a series ended. The Boss now has a working dignity vessel with a crew and has access to “anacapa drive,” an instantaneous FTL -drive. She and her group are studying the tech and are installing the drive on ordinary space crafts. But her friend is obsessed with stopping the empire’s research on the drive – it erroneously assumes it to be a simple cloaking device. She starts a cover mission to destroy all Empire research on the subject. But not everything goes smoothly.
Almost just as entertaining a book as the earlier installments, a part of the story is told on flashbacks going back tens of years. I found those to be illuminating about the personality and past of the characters, but while I was reading them, I was hoping to get over them and continue the “real” plot. The ending was pretty harsh. I didn’t believe that the boss would be ready to go such lengths for her goals. It didn’t seem to be really in character. But I am looking forward to the next part; perhaps there we’ll learn what the “Boneyard” mentioned in the title of the book really is – in this book it was only found.
370 pp.
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