Mutineers Moon Table of ContentsBook OneChapter OneChapter TwoChapter ThreeChapter FourChapter FiveChapter SixBook TwoChapter SevenChapter EightChapter NineChapter TenChapter ElevenChapter TwelveChapter ThirteenChapter FourteenChapter FifteenChapter SixteenChapter SeventeenChapter EighteenChapter NineteenChapter TwentyChapter Twenty-oneChapter Twenty-twoChapter Twenty-threeChapter Twenty-fourMUTINEERS MOON David WeberThis is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional and anyresemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.Copyright c 1991 by David WeberAll rights reserved including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.A Baen Books OriginalBaen Publishing EnterprisesP.O. Box 1403Riverdale N.Y. 10471ISBN: 0-671-72085-6Cover art by Paul AlexanderFirst printing October 1991Second printing October 1994Distributed bySIMON amp SCHUSTER1230 Avenue of the AmericasNew York N.Y. 10020Printed in the United States of America INTO THE FIELD OF FIRE The tunnel seemed endless yet the end was upon him almost before he realized it and he lunged upanother ladder. The shaft was sealed but he was already probing at it spotting the catch heaving it upwith a mighty shoulder. He burst into the night air . . . and his senses were suddenly afire with morepower sources. More combat armor Coming from behind in the prodigious leaps of jump gear andwaiting in the woods ahead as well He tried to unlimber his own energy gun but a torrent of energy crashed over him and he cried out asevery implant in his body screamed in protest. He writhed fighting it clinging to the torment ofawareness. It was a capture field--not a killing blast of energy but something infinitely worse. A police device thatlocked his synthetic muscles with brutal