The company
By: K. J. Parker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780316038539
Subjects: Imaginary places -- Fiction; Veterans -- Fiction; Colonists -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island. They take with them everything they could possibly need: food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives. But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one. The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep them together. Only then do they begin to realize that they've brought with them rather more than they bargained for.