Ensign Ballard: Skullduggery on Chalcedony (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798858449713)

Ensign Mike Gallagher, a recent Royal Naval Academy graduate, is assigned is a engineering officer on a nuclear-powered icebreaker. Officers must prove their competence on ocean-going ships to qualify for assignment to a sublight starship.
This promised to be a routine assignment until a freighter captain reports sighting a previously known species of sea serpent. A scientific mission to uncharted waters encounters off-world slavers and a hitherto-unknown community of Basque shepherds operating a clandestine sheep ranch to dodge the tax collector. As a more or less expendable junior officer, Ballard finds himself in the thick of things.

Author: Bob McMicken
ISBN-13: 9798858449713
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 08/22/2023
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d