Classic Book Review - "In Enemy Hands" (Honorvese 7)

IN WHICH IT ALL GOES WRONG ...

After her victories against Pirates and Peep raiders in Silesia in "Honor among enemies," Honor Harrington has spent a few months working with the Weapons Development board, but now returns to Grayson where Admiral White Haven is putting together the Alliance's "Eighth Fleet" which will take the war to the Peep aggressors.

But in this seventh book in the series she will be tested as never before ...

 





































"In Enemy hands" begins about a year after the end of "Honor among enemies," six years into the war against the People's republic of Haven (Peeps), and about two thousand years in our future.

Reflecting the fact that war is expensive in terms of human life and suffering as well as resources, David Weber's books have never shied away from depicting the pain and loss involved. especially for those on both sides when one side in the war is a ruthless dictatorship to which human life is cheap.

The "Peeps" are very obviously based on the Revolutionary France at the time of the terror - it could hardly be more obvious when their leader is called Rob S Pierre who heads the committee of Public Safety - but with elements taken from Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia as well. (Such as a security police force called the SS and political commissars watching over and second-guessing military commanders.)

Earlier books in the series have shown how difficult life was made for men and women serving under such a regime, but after a battle goes horribly wrong, it turns out that being a prisoner of such a regime can be very bad news too.

There is some pretty dark stuff in some of the "Honorverse" books, but this one is probably the darkest of the lot.

That said, it is a very well-written story and if you pick the book up you will have difiiculty putting it down.


You can buy "In Enemy Hands" from Amazon at

In Enemy Hands by David Weber: An Honor Harrington Novel: Amazon.co.uk. ISBN 9780671877934: Books

More details of the series as a whole are given on this site at

Book Series overview: David Weber's "Honor Harrington" universe book reviews.

 I can strongly recommend "In Enemy Hands" and indeed the whole series.


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