Review: Coming Down The Stretch
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2013
The crew of the diplomatic ship Clarke picks up another clue in the eleventh episode of Scalzi's new Old Man's War novel.Someone is taking old CDU vessels, those disarmed and sold for civilian use. Some think it's The Conclave. when the ship comes out of skip for a clandestine mission with the other side, it's to find two ships firing on each other: a Conclave warship and a diplomatic ship. The diplomatic ship fires on the Clarke as well.The warship destroys the missiles, disables the diplomatic ship, and offers to surrender to the Clarke.They both learn each his had ships disappear and maybe think it was the other side responsible. When, together they explore the disabled ship, they begin to learn what is really going on.Coming down the stretch now with only two more episodes.