{"product_id":"lieutenant-year-5-joe-durham-9798187525072","title":"Lieutenant Year 5","description":"A city is dying from forged paperwork. The fleet just sent the one officer whose whole career is forged paperwork. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrenna's cities live under energy shields, because when its two suns line up, the open ground burns. Vaenlyn's shield is certified current - every component, every service date, stamped and sworn by Drennlen, who live and die by their records. Then the Providence arrives ahead of the solar alignment, a fleet audit puts eyes on the actual parts, and the record turns out to be a nineteen-year lie. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe shield is rotting. The parts and crews that should have maintained it were quietly shipped off-world. And there is no fix that fits in the days before the deadly solar alignment hits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe only move left is one nobody has tried in three hundred years: wake the ancient machinery the city once roamed on, and move a quarter-million people across the badlands to shelter before the suns align. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLieutenant Montgomery Hale is the pilot who has to make it work. Dying drives nursed past their ratings. A route-keeper who reads constantly changing ground the maps lie about. A flagship flown ten meters off a desert floor with a city in tow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's the job he was built for. It's also the worst place in the galaxy to be a man with a forged record. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo alien armadas. No galactic wars. Just a city that has to move, a shield that has to light, and a lie that has run out of road. This is the book where somebody finally checks the paperwork.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Durham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798187525072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Joe Durham","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997941444863,"sku":"9798187525072","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lieutenant-year-5-joe-durham-9798187525072","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}