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Stone and Anvil

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Star Trek: New Frontier
Hardcover / October, 2003
0-7434-2957-5

Written by Peter David

Description:

Fans of Peter David's bestselling New Frontier saga have been eagerly awaiting a new adventure featuring Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, Captain Elizabeth Shelby, and the crews of the Starships Excalibur and Trident. Now at last, Calhoun and Shelby return in an exciting page-turner that explores the past of both captains--while simultaneously confronting them with a perilous dilemma in the present.

A crewman has been murdered aboard the U.S.S. Trident, and all evidence points to Ensign Janos of the Excalibur. Calhoun is reluctant to accept that Janos, a powerful non-humanoid whom the captain has known and trusted for years, could be a killer and immediately launches an investigation into the crime. But this troubling murder mystery soon escalates into a full-fledged diplomatic crisis that threatens to pit Calhoun and Shelby against the entire United Federation of Planets--and the Starship Enterprise.

Meanwhile, the turmoil involving Ensign Janos forces Calhoun to recall his own tempestuous past, his rocky relationship with a young Elizabeth Shelby, and a long-ago exploit that may have everything to do with the deadly emergency that now confronts them all!

"Stone and Anvil" is exactly the kind of compelling and original Star Trek adventure that Peter David's thousands of fans have come to expect from New Frontier.

Notes

The most eagerly awaited New Frontier novel yet: the back story of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and his rocky road from one-time savage freedom fighter to Starfleet's most talented officer. Captain MacKenzie Calhoun is one of Starfleet's finest, a highly-trained Captain in command of the cutting edge ship known as the USS Excalibur. Yet he was not always destined for Starfleet. Things could have been very different... Twenty years before he came to command the Excalibur, he was the victorious teenage figurehead of the revolt that freed his home planet from alien domination. A wild and hardened killer, at nineteen years old he is already a leader of men. But what will he do when his only goal--his struggle to overthrow the Danteri rule--is achieved? Discovered by Captain Picard of the USS Stargazer, who detects in him the seeds of possible greatness, he is given a choice which will change his life forever. Under the guidance of Jean-Luc Picard, he abandons the pathway to death and ignominy on his home world, and chooses instead to enrol at Starfleet Academy, a place utterly opposed to the values of independence and rebellion he learned as a youth. The road from raw recruit to Starfleet Officer has never been rougher. And Mackenzie Calhoun's journey is never less than fascinating, told here as only Peter David can tell it.

The hardcover edition of this book will include, at no additional cost, a CD-ROM containing all 16 of the pre-2003 New Frontier novels, novellas, and short story in eBook format.