The Double-Cross Program [Paperback]

Chris Bunch (Author)

Book Description

Series: Star Risk | Publication Date: July 6, 2004

M'chel Riss and the Star Risk, Ltd. team find themselves in the middle of a strange assignment: a staged bank robbery that involves putting money back. But the job soon takes an even stranger turn when they get caught up in a full-fledged war over an addictive new consumer product. The roguish mercenaries will need to rely on every resource possible to make a buck and make it out alive-in this fast-paced tale of hard-hitting action and a double-cross or three...

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Roc (July 6, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451459865
• ISBN-13: 978-0451459862
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,665,069 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #82 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Series

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Double, Triple, Quadruple, Anyone?, January 9, 2005

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Michelle Manke "Lt Spicy" (Santa Barbara, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Double-Cross Program (Paperback)

Chris Bunch has always written books that blend action and intrique with complicated political situations. In that, this third book of the Star Risk series is no different. Every word is worth it though!

M'chel Riss, partner of Star Risk, Ltd wants to hire her firm to invesitgate the death of someone she knows. Luckily, the parties involved need someone like Star Risk to advise and to win the war they are involved with their neighboring systems.

However, Star Risk is being setup for a double cross, and they don't particularly like their employers either. Nothing's stopping them from contemplating working for the other side...

Bringing peace to these systems while ensuring regular shipments of the main export - a new addictive crop - to the galaxy while keeping the Alliance off their backs may prove to be a bigger job than they can handle. Filled with incompetent rulers, huge battles, non-stop action, doublecrosses galore, and more - could this be the final mission for Star Risk?

This was an excellent followup to the first two books in the Star Risk series, "Star Risk, Ltd" and "The Scoundrel Worlds". The characters have proven they work well as a team in the previous two books. But now you see even more character developement as you learn more about M'chel, Grok, Chas, Jasmine, and even Friedrich as they take on the biggest job of their lives. Chris proves that he has the deft touch to blend action, politics, romance, and solid world building into a seamless whole. This is some of the best 'military' sci-fi being written out there.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More Than Double...How about Quadruple?, October 9, 2005

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Tracy Davis (California, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Double-Cross Program (Paperback)

Not having read the other book, the first, in this series, it took me a little while to get into the characters depicted in Chris Bunch's novel. Taking place in the distant future, the members of Star Risk, Ltd, a mercenary group, attempt to make money out of two warring groups in a part of the galaxy far, far away. The plot starts out simple: the company is hired by one government to actually help them replace money into a bank that was stolen - the government used it for investment purposes without anyone knowing, and now has the money to repay its unofficial loan. Unfortunately for Star Risk, what seems a simple job turns into a conflict between warring states, both of whom turn out to be corrupt and greedy for maln, a new consumer product that Alliance officials want to spread throughout the galaxy. The plot has numerous twists and turns, and at times, it's hard to follow exactly what's going on. The characters are fairly interesting, and it's nice to see two women as vital, leading characters. The most interesting character is Grok, a Chewbaca-like alien, who seems to really enjoy killing. However, the battle scenes drag the book down, and I found I wasn't caring a lot about the fate of the main characters all that much. Again, perhaps if I had read the other book in the series, I would have had a greater connection to the reality created by the author.

4.0 out of 5 stars Double Cross Program, November 5, 2009

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Adam S. Morgan (Lake City, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Double-Cross Program (Paperback)

I purchased it for a co-worker. It arrived promptly and in the condition described in the description.