Children of Empire
Cross Fire (Exo, volume 2)
By Fonda Lee

12 Jun, 2018
Military Speculative Fiction That Doesn't Suck
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2018’s Cross Fire is the second volume in Fonda Lee’s Exo series.
While the crisis in the previous novel was successfully handled, that did not bring Donovan Reyes’s father back to life, nor did it resolve the fundamental problem of how to reconcile the Commonwealth’s strategic goals with Earth’s defensive needs. Earth is, after all, merely one of a great many worlds in the Mur Erzen Commonwealth and not a particular rich one. Defending it from the Rii could prove expensive.
The zhree who invaded Earth have a simple, economically justifiable plan: abandon the Earth to their rapacious cousins.