Review: Great addition to a wonderful series!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 26, 2013
Defiant is the ninth story in the Ell Donsaii series.  Just as enjoyable as any of the prior books,  Defiant takes the reader in a different direction than the previous books.  This book lays out what could happen to even a  well known, well respected, very wealthy , very popular citizen by a government spinning out of control. Current U S President Flood loses his bid for a second term and is replaced by a  new Female President who ran on a platform which pits her government against Ell Donsaii.  This President is power hungry, poorly advised and has control of the House and Senate.  She proceeds  at once  to enforce a congressional bill aimed directly at Ell Donsaii's technology.  When Ell refuses to turn over her one sided port tech, she is arrested and imprisoned.  Named a domestic terrorist Ell is denied all rights a US citizen is given under the US Constitution and is secretly shipped off to Guantanamo Bay.  Ell (as usual) is well prepared for this action and is able to escape and flees to Mexico.  From there she sneaks back into her own country!  This book deals with a very sober subject and has a cliffhanger ending, however it is still chock full of fun and laughs and is well worth the time to read it.