Patriarch's Hope

THE SEAFORT SAGA

David Feintuch, winner of the prestigious John W. Campbell Award, presents a tense, thrilling new chapter in the bestselling Seafort saga -- as global environmental devastation and a spaceborne coup d'etat threaten all humanity.

U.N. SecGen Nicholas Seafort is the most powerful person on Earth, but his merciless sense of honor and faith is about to be tested. The ecology of the planet is on the point of collapse -- a crisis Seafort himself helped cause. And from a hijacked orbital platform, political renegades hold millions hostage. Now, unarmed, with only civilians and children at his side, Nick Seafort must go to war against the most dangerous of enemies -- those from within. And the cost may be more than even Seafort's iron will can bear...