About the book: year / "Basilisk" - a distant crossroads of hyperspace tunnels, a lonely base near a remote planet owned by semi-wild aborigines, a smugglers' reserve, abandoned to the mercy of fate an outpost of the star kingdom of Manticore... It is also the arena of the first battle in the coming war. And if the defense of the Basilisk had not been led by Captain Victoria Harrington, Manticore would have had no chance of victory.