The Basilisk Station was a place to sweep incompetents, fools, and failures under the rug, or to punish officers with enemies in high places. Commander Honor Harrington has enemies, and she's about to make more of them, because the people out to get her have made her mad. Instead of remaining out of sight during her assignment to the forlorn outpost, Commander Harrington, along with her vessel, the Fearless, performs incredible flying maneuvers to stop a foreign takeover of a major space station.