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Silent Weapons is a Pocket TNG novel – the second novel in the Cold Equations trilogy – written by David Mack. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in November 2012.
Summary[]
- From the book jacket
- Three years after the disastrous final Borg Invasion, a bitter cold war against the Typhon Pact has pushed Starfleet's resources to the breaking point. Now the rise of a dangerous new technology threatens to destroy the Federation from within.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew answer a distress call, only to become targets in a deadly game of deception. To protect a vital diplomatic mission, they must find a way to identify the spies hiding in their midst, before it's too late.
- But Worf soon realizes the crew's every move has been predicted: Someone is using them as pawns. And the closer they get to exposing their enemy, the deeper they spiral into its trap...
- Part two of a new trilogy by the award-winning author of Star Trek: Destiny.
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
Background information[]
- Mack revealed that contracts had been signed for the novel on 8 March 2011. [1]
- The individual novel titles and story details were announced in Star Trek Magazine issue 166.
- Cover design by Alan Dingman.
- This novel takes place after the events of the film Star Trek Nemesis and the novel The Persistence of Memory.
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