The Widowmaker Reborn
Published on 13. September 2022
255 pages
978-1-5040-7728-6 (ISBN)
Description
The multiple Hugo Award-winning author resurrects the consummate bounty hunter in this action-packed novel of interstellar adventure.
On Deluros VIII, Jefferson Nighthawk rests in DeepSleep until a cure is found for the disease that dooms him. At least, that wouldbe the case if he wasn't the Widowmaker, the most remarkable killing machine in the galaxy. There are those who will pay whatever it takes to hire a man with his talents. Or should we say clone...
This isn't the first time Nighthawk has been duplicated, but lessons have been learned. His previous clone was physically perfect but emotionally immature. This second clone is at the peak of his powers, imprinted with all of the memories of his sixty-one-year-old host. His new job: to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a powerful politician and kill her revolutionary captor.
With a handpicked team of an empath, an alien dragon, and his trainer, Kinoshita, Nighthawk sets out for the Frontier. But then he learns the truth about the kidnapping-and the man who's paying him. Now the future Nighthawk has dreamed of will only be possible if he can get out of his present situation alive...
Praise for Mike Resnick
"Resnick is thought-provoking, imaginative... and above all galactically grand."- Los Angeles Times
"Nobody spins a yarn better than Mike Resnick."-Orson Scott Card, New York Times-bestselling author of Ender's Game
On Deluros VIII, Jefferson Nighthawk rests in DeepSleep until a cure is found for the disease that dooms him. At least, that wouldbe the case if he wasn't the Widowmaker, the most remarkable killing machine in the galaxy. There are those who will pay whatever it takes to hire a man with his talents. Or should we say clone...
This isn't the first time Nighthawk has been duplicated, but lessons have been learned. His previous clone was physically perfect but emotionally immature. This second clone is at the peak of his powers, imprinted with all of the memories of his sixty-one-year-old host. His new job: to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a powerful politician and kill her revolutionary captor.
With a handpicked team of an empath, an alien dragon, and his trainer, Kinoshita, Nighthawk sets out for the Frontier. But then he learns the truth about the kidnapping-and the man who's paying him. Now the future Nighthawk has dreamed of will only be possible if he can get out of his present situation alive...
Praise for Mike Resnick
"Resnick is thought-provoking, imaginative... and above all galactically grand."- Los Angeles Times
"Nobody spins a yarn better than Mike Resnick."-Orson Scott Card, New York Times-bestselling author of Ender's Game
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Person
Mike Resnick (1942-2020) was an American science fiction author and editor. A winner of five Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award, Resnick was hugely popular in the world of fandom and was the guest of honor at manyscience fiction conventions, including Chicon 7, the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago.He was the executive editor of
Jim Baen's Universe, as well as the editor and co-creator of
Galaxy's Edgemagazine. In addition to publishing hundreds of books, Resnick was known for helping new writers start their careers. The Mike Resnick Memorial Award was created in 2021 to honor his memory and carry on his legacy by spotlighting new writers of short fiction in the genre.
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- Epilogue
- Preview: The Widowmaker Unleashed
- About the Author
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