With Unclean Hands

By Adam-Troy Castro

ANDREA CORT.

War criminal. Genius. Outcast. Heroine.

Sent to the home-world of the Zinn, a once-powerful race now on the long path to extinction, she’s expected to sign the approval for a simple prisoner transfer -- but why are the Zinn so eager to take custody of an unremarkable human murderer? What brutal crime is being planned against an innocent? What hidden agenda threatens to topple the balance of power?

This Nebula-Award nominated novella is the earliest adventure of Andrea Cort, heroine of the Philip K.Dick Award winning novel, EMISSARIES FROM THE DEAD.

Other Andrea Cort stories available from JABberwocky:

The Coward’s Option (and Tasha’s Fail Safe)Unseen Demons

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781625671097

Adam-Troy Castro

Adam-Troy Castro's fiction has won the Seiun and Philip K. Dick Awards, and received two nominations for the Hugo, three for the Stoker, and eight for the Nebula.

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Reviews for With Unclean Hands

[aulsmith · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This is a prequel to the Andrea Cort series. Perhaps if you've read other books in this series, you'll appreciate this story of one of her early missions. As someone new to the series, I found the "surprise" not even vaguely surprising and the solution to the moral dilemma repugnant.