{"product_id":"ensign-ballard-bob-mcmicken-9798858449713","title":"Ensign Ballard: Skullduggery on Chalcedony","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bob McMicken\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798858449713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Bob McMicken","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852132561151,"sku":"9798858449713","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ensign-ballard-bob-mcmicken-9798858449713","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}