Against All Enemies (JAG in Space #4) [Paperback]

John G. Hemry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 27, 2005

Someone onboard the USS Michaelson is selling secrets, and to uncover the traitor, legal officer Lieutenant Paul Sinclair must walk the dangerous line between duty and honor.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Ace (December 27, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441013821
• ISBN-13: 978-0441013821
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #438,987 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4th tale of "space lawyers",, March 7, 2007

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Marshall Lord (Whitehaven, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Against All Enemies (JAG in Space #4) (Paperback)

"Against All Enemies" is the fourth book about Space navy officer Paul Sinclair.

It may or may not be the last book Hemry writes about him but it is definately the last in which he is the legal officer of the space cruiser USS Michaelson as Paul finishes his three year tour of duty on that ship during the course of the book.

The four books are:

A Just Determination
Burden of Proof
Rule of Evidence
Against All Enemies.

All four follow roughly the same pattern:

a) they start with some action and adventure in space,
b) something goes seriously wrong,
c) one of the participants faces a court martial,
d) Paul Sinclair's evidence plays a key role in determining
who is guilty or innocent.

The suggestion of what a far future space navy may be like appears to me to be interesting and probably as realistic as anyone writing now can hope to get. John Hemry was a naval officer and draws on that experience: in this book which is partly about espionage he used experienced gained when working for the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service from whom he learned in real life about catching those engaged in espionage.

I personally found all four books to be interesting and entertaining. Each stands on its own and you do not absolutely have to have read the first three to appreciate "Against All Enemies." Some readers who have read the first three Paul Sinclair books may feel that this is too similar to give them anything new.

I don't entirely share this view: for one thing each book introduces some new characters and each time Paul Sinclair has a slightly different role. There is also the ongoing story from book to book of Paul's relationship with his girlfriend, Jen. Although the plot outlines are very similar, until the last two chapters I was in some doubt in most of the books - and more in this fourth book than any of the others - whether the person accused would be convicted.

If you are interested in the idea of a "Judge Advocate General in space" my recommendation would be to start with "A Just Determination" and, if you enjoy it, read the rest in sequence.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good, but not his best., January 15, 2006

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Oliver Emerson "O. Emerson, reader" (San Rafael, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Against All Enemies (JAG in Space #4) (Paperback)

John Hemry has taken a different track with this novel than his previous novels. The moral and ethical problems revolve around responding to conflicting information brought forth in this and in previous Hemry novels. Through out the novel I wanted the author to take different approaches to the issues he was developing, but at the end of this book, I still don't know how I would or if I could take the novel to another resolution. Clearly, I rated this novel more for the philosophical issues raised, developend and then followed to the end of the novel, rather than any action that the author might have chosen to describe.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A bit more personal, February 4, 2006

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Amy Chused - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Against All Enemies (JAG in Space #4) (Paperback)

This book follows the same pattern as the other three books in the series: In the course of his normal job as a space officer, Paul Sinclair gets sucked into a legal issue that requires him to balance his personal misgivings against his desire to do what is right.

The most interesting part of this novel is, IMO, the inside of Paul's head as he struggles to figure out just what _is_ the right thing to do.

If you like courtroom dramas and science fiction, go out and get all four of the books in this series -- there aren't many books out there that successfully combine the two.