Undercurrents

#2 in the hard-hitting military science fiction Orphan�� Legacy series. Ace intelligence operative Lt. Jazen Parker parachutes into Tressel, a planet which resembles Earth in its Paleozoic era, on a mission to bring down the local politicos. He quickly realizes he�� been handed a near-impossible task. Tressel is a politically-quarantined nightmare world with a culture confined to iron rivet technology and a ruling regime a bit to the right of Heinrich Himmler. Jazen�� inclined to abandon this particular hellhole to its ways--that is, until he uncovers a plot afoot that will throw a five hundred-planet alliance into the death-throes of anarchy.

So the local Nazis must go. Unfortunately, all Jazen�� got to work with is a handful of rust-bucket tanks, a retread rebellion, and two strong, beautiful women who love him, but think he�� tilting at windmills and is about to get himself killed. What they don�� know is, once committed, Jazen Parker is the best there is when it comes to getting the dirty job done on the ground. It�� the local bullies who are about to be taught a lesson in losing.

About Robert Buettner:

��uettner goes well beyond . . . military science fiction . . . he understands . . . living as a soldier ��the boredom punctuated by terror, the constant anxiety and self-doubt, the random chaos that battle always is, and the emotional glue that holds together people who may have nothing in common except absolute responsibility for one another's lives.����oe Haldeman, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author

��O]nce in a while . . . a contemporary author penetrates to the heart of Heinlein's vision . . . to replicate the master's effects. . . . [O]ne such book [is] Robert Buettner's Orphanage.����The Washington Post

��uettner shows the Heinlein touch.����I>Denver Post