Pirates of the Outrigger Rift by Gary Jonas & Bill D. Allen

Author:Gary Jonas & Bill D. Allen [Jonas, Gary & Allen, Bill D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, Space Opera
ISBN: 9781477849248
Google: u4HAngEACAAJ
Amazon: 1477849246
Barnesnoble: 1477849246
Publisher: 47North
Published: 2014-01-28T05:00:00+00:00

They called him Thorne. If he’d ever had a first name, no one knew it. Nor would they dare utter it if they did know. He liked being called Thorne, and if you knew what was healthy for you, you stayed on his good side. Some people insisted that Thorne didn’t have a good side.

Thorne’s passion was piracy. He loved the power. Loved the way it felt to blast someone’s ship, then board it and take what he wanted. He loved the respect that fear gave him.

Thorne enjoyed attacking lone ships, but given the choice he’d opt for caravans. He and his crew had once stumbled across a caravan, and they were so complete in their theft and destruction that they attracted the attention of someone with real power.

It was common knowledge that Thorne respected power. He was a man who took whatever he wanted wherever he wanted, and not only did he get away with it, but no one would ever challenge him. While that felt great, Thorne knew he lacked the kind of power his mystery friend at Nebulaco had.

When the first message from the informant had been delivered to him, Thorne wasn’t sure whether or not to believe it. It came from the lips of a small, unimposing man, a common beggar. But the credits the messenger delivered, a token of the informant’s esteem, gave credence to the story.

The informant rarely communicated with Thorne’s forces directly. The informant had a complicated network, each group using one or two contacts to pass information up and down through the organization. No one knew who the informant really was, and those who asked too many questions didn’t live long.

The first time Thorne acted on information from this mysterious informant, his main concern was that the raid he was planning was some sort of trap. The lightly guarded caravan might be a Confed task force trying to clean up the sector.

But Thorne couldn’t resist the opportunity. He and his crew flew over to the quadrant where this caravan was supposed to be, and sure enough, the informant’s information was dead-on. So Thorne attacked, and the payday was tremendous.

The informant didn’t want any of the money, but Thorne knew he must have earned a profit somehow.

Mostly, Thorne loved the way the media reacted. They were fearful and awestruck. That had not always been the case.

Years ago, a reporter on the planet Sumter made the mistake of calling Thorne an insignificant coward. He said Thorne attacked only ships with no real firepower and that he would never be anything more than an irritant to the public. He suggested that someone swat him down like the buzzing insect that he was.

The next day, Thorne strode into the studio where this reporter was on the air broadcasting his newscast to the civilized worlds. Security tried to stop him, but Thorne simply shot them. He walked right up to the pest and smiled. “Those things you said about me. Tell me to my face.”

The reporter nearly had a heart attack, but Thorne wouldn’t let him off so easy.

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