Review: High in the Sky
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2014
Imagine a time in the future when airplanes are replaced by spacecrafts so large they must be held in ports in the sky.  Imagine world trade is no longer between countries but now between inter-space planets and those large ports in the sky are loading-unloading docks and storage warehouses for planetary traded goods…including such things as petroleum.And then imagine the depth of the political rhetoric, espionage and yes, even union conflicts that dominate the majority of the trade throughout all governments on these various planets.All hell breaks loose when terrorists blow up one such Starport over the planet Askelon (a planet remarkably like present day Earth).  While the dock workers go on strike the President of Askelon strives to renew the economy of her country/planet through an act of covert espionage  From  the coercion of an ‘independent woman of means’, to the re-emergence of a  fallen General, to the accident of a teenage boy which manages to disrupt secret preparatory maneuvers of an entire Company of the Askelon Army, into actual implementation of the Secret Covert Campaign,  Starport  will keep one turning pages just to see who survives to the end.Once again John Bowers creates heroic characters in midst of realistic settings and the throes of espionage and impossible odds