The Hero

It's a matter of trust. For thousands of years the Darhel, a warrior species conditioned to be incapable of killing, manipulated and controlled the human race. Then the humans threw off their yoke. Now, for the first time, a Darhel has been assigned to the elite Deep Reconnaissance Team commandos. Trust, in a small unit, is vital. And there was no trust to be had on either side. But when the mission encountered an alien device worth more than a king's ransom, it was the humans who betrayed the trust. Now the despised Darhel must race against the team's sniper to prevent the artifact falling into the wrong hands. The Darhel has empathic powers, superhuman strength and the speed of a cheetah. The sniper has years of experience and enormous ability. The sniper can kill. The Darhel cannot. The fate of the galaxy and the human race for the next thousand years rests on the shoulders of a Darhel. The Hero has a thousand faces, but is one of them the face of an elf? ** Number of Words in Auth: 6 Formats : EPUB Title First Parm : Hero Calc ESI Part 3 : 12 Calc ESI Part 2 : of Calc ESI Part 1 : 05 Enter Series Index : 05 of 12 Calc Series Group : Posleen War Uncomma Title 2 : Hero Title Post Pound : Hero Words in Author Name: 6 Previous Series Index: 5 Test Text Series Index: 5 Raw Title : Hero Title Length : 4 Title Parm A : Hero Record ID : 463 Enter New Series (Calced): SIPZ_E.Posleen War.Scifan.05 of 12..ICBF Author Parm Cn : Williamson ES Name : Posleen War Calc New Series : Posleen War.... Calc ESN Part 2 : of Calc ESN Part 3 : 12 Series Parm B : 5 Series Parm A : Posleen War Test Search : Hero / John Ringo & Michael Z. Williamson Number of Formats : 1 Title Pre Pound : Hero Calc ESN Part 1 : 05 Words in Title : 1 Whole Title : Hero Title Suffix : Hero Uncomma Author : John Ringo & Michael Z. Williamson ES Genre : Scifan Compare Author : gt ES Group : SIPZ_E Test Compare Series to Entered: eq ESN Combined : 05 ES Cover Quality : ICBF Quick Search : John Ringo Hero Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : amazon:B004EN4WRQ, ff:r/john-ringo/hero, goodreads:662657, google:B2mermqhfGIC, isbn:9780743488273 Single Author : John Ringo Sorted Author by LN, FN: Ringo, John & Williamson, Michael Z. Num of Aut : 2 Any Num n Name : War Calc ESI Combined : 05 of 12 Title Pre Parend : Hero Author Parm A : John Ringo & Michael Z. Williamson It's a matter of trust. For thousands of years the Darhel, a warrior species conditioned to be incapable of killing, manipulated and controlled the human race. Then the humans threw off their yoke and, as humans tend to do, attempted to exterminate them. Now, for the first time, a Darhel has been assigned to the elite Deep Reconnaissance Team commandos. Trust, in a small unit, is vital. And there was no trust to be had on either side. But when the mission encountered an alien device worth more than a king's ransom, it was the humans who betrayed the trust. Now the despised Darhel must race against the team's sniper to prevent the artefact falling into the wrong hands. The Darhel has empathic powers, superhuman strength and the speed of a cheetah. The sniper has years of experience and enormous ability. The sniper can kill. The Darhel cannot. The fate of the galaxy and the human race for the next thousand years hangs in the balance and that balance rests on the shoulders of a Darhel. The Hero has a thousand faces, but is one of them the face of an elf? The human was an expert sniper-and a psychopath. He had never failed in the past when he stalked human prey. But now he is on an enemy planet, and his prey is anything but human. The Darhel are a race with a highly developed empathic sense. Long ago, they learned that they cannot deal death to another intelligent being without being destroyed by the death agonies of their victim. Even though they have been manipulating other species behind the scenes for millennia, including the humans of planet Earth, they cannot bear to kill another being, and depend on other, less sensitive beings, to do their dirty work. But now one of the Darhel must kill or be killed. And the fate, not only of his own race, but all of humanity, is riding on his survival. The course of the next thousand years will be determined by whether or not he can learn to fight back. If he cannot, it will be too late . . . for the entire galaxy. On An Enemy Planet Inhabited By The Darhel, An Alien Race With Extraordinary Empathic Abilities, A Human Hunter Stalks His Alien Prey, A Darhel Who Must Overcome His Sensitivities To Kill His Stalker, Or Be Killed In The Process. John Ringo And Michael Z. Williamson. A Baen Books Original--t.p. Verso.