The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms

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The final original novel in the electrifying The Next Generation/Deep Space Nine crossover event!

Following the resolution of the fertility crisis that nearly caused their extinction, the Andorian people now stand ready to rejoin the United Federation of Planets. The return of one of its founding member worlds is viewed by many as the first hopeful step beyond the uncertainty and tragedy that have overshadowed recent events in the Alpha Quadrant. But as the Federation looks to the future and the special election to name President Baccos permanent successor, time is running out to apprehend those responsible for the respected leaders brutal assassination. Even as elements of the Typhon Pact are implicated for the murder, Admiral William Riker holds key knowledge of the true assassinsa revelation that could threaten the fragile Federation-Cardassian alliance.

Questions and concerns also continue to swell around Baccos interim successor, Ishan Anjar, who uses the recent bloodshed to further a belligerent, hawkish political agenda against the Typhon Pact. With the election looming, Riker dispatches his closest friend, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, in a desperate attempt to uncover the truth. But as Picard and the Enterprise crew pursue the few remaining clues, Riker must act on growing suspicions that someone within Ishans inner circle has been in league with the assassins from the very beginning...

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Dayton Ward is aNew York Timesbestselling author or coauthor of more than forty novels and novellas, often with his best friend, Kevin Dilmore. His short fiction has appeared in more than thirty anthologies, and hes written for magazines such asthe NCO Journal,Kansas City Voices,Famous Monsters of Filmland,Star Trek magazine, andStar Trek: Communicator, as well as the websites Tor.com, StarTrek.com, and Syfy.com. A native of Tampa, Florida, he currently lives with his family in Kansas City, Missouri. Visit him on the web at DaytonWard.com.