Space opera with a bang as a young rogue from a noble family is caught up in an interstellar warDISOWNED IN A HARSH GALAXYCast out by his family and exiled from the Rimward Commonwealth Simon Forrester must make a new life for himself as an apprentice to the powerful Commerce Guild But others aboard the merchant vessel Stacked Deck have a hidden agenda that might lead directly to interstellar war Now when rising tensions between the Commonwealth and the neighboring League of Democracies threatens to erupt into open war Simon finds himself forced to choose between old and new loyalties with the fate of an empire at stake!Meet the AuthorBorn in Southend-on-Sea a fading costal resort at the mouth of the Thames Estuary Alex Stewart has been writing stories since he could first hold a pen Introduced to science fiction at an early age by his grandmother’s enthusiasm for Thunderbirds Godzilla movies and weekly gift of comic books he rapidly exhausted the local library’s stock of juvenile SF and resorted to raiding the adult shelves with his mother’s ticketSince his debut in British SF magazine Interzone Stewart has has written short stories novels screenplays comic scripts reviews criticism and RPG scenarios both under his own name and the pseudonym Sandy Mitchell As Sandy Mitchell he’s best known for the popular Commissar Cain series of Warhammer 40000 tie-ins described by David Drake as “First rate military SF” In the late Nineties he was also a staff writer on the BBC prime-time technothriller series Bugs