The Better Part of Valor (Confederation, Bk 2) Author: Tanya Huff
	Book Information Publisher: DAW Book Type: Paperback Rating: 24 ISBN-13: 9780756400620 - ISBN-10: 0756400627 Publication Date: 3/1/2002 Pages: 411

Best known for her Quarters series and vampire novels, Tanya Huff stunned critics and fans with Valor's Choice, her first military science fiction novel. This thrilling sequel follows the Confederation's investigation of a seemingly abandoned alien spaceship.

NEVER TELL A TWO-STAR GENERAL WHAT YOU REALLY THINK OF HIM...

That was the mistake Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr had made with General Morris. But as a battle-hardened professional, she took pride in doing her job *and* getting her troops back alive. So after she'd saved the mission to bring the Silsviss into the Confederation - instead of losing them and their world to the enemy known only as the Others - she let the general know exactly how she felt.

And Torin's reward - or punishment - was to be separated from her platoon and sent off on what might well prove an even more perilous assignment. She was commandeered to protect a scientific expedition to a newly discovered and seemlingly derelict spaceship of truly epic proportions. And Confederation politics had saddled her with a commanding officer who might prove more of a menace to the mission's success than anything they encountered.

Only time would tell if the ship was what it appeared to be, or a trap created by the Others - or the work of an as yet unknown alien race with an agenda that could prove all too hostile to other life-forms...