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A legendary hero, he is promoted to fleet admiral—even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup. Geary has never fought for the sake of glory. His new rank means only that he has the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses and may finally be willing to end the war. With grim determination, Geary leads the fleet back out into Syndic space.

The rulers of the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble and revolt is brewing, so it's high time for a short victorious war. But Honor Harrington is going to give them a war that's neither short nor victorious.

Earth is rising in the House of Voltar.... And there’ll be hell to pay! That’s right. The invasion is on...and it’s coming soon to a galaxy near you. The action couldn’t be hotter, and the plot couldn’t be more diabolical. Earth is coming to Voltar - and the Voltarians won’t know what hit them. Murder, blackmail, drugs, psychoanalysis, PR firms, sex-crazed teenyboppers, riots in the streets, women in chains. These are the powerful secret weapons of war.

Jasmine is on a mission. The threat from her father is growing stronger, and she must pull together a group powerful enough to end the threat he poses. The enemy of her enemy is her friend. The problem lies in the rivalries between the various groups in Jasmine's world. To get around the issue, Jasmine hides her meetings from the pack as she creates allegiances with both friends and enemies of her people. Tension grows within the pack, and their trust in Jasmine is shaken. All the while, a dark cloud looms in the distance.

Jasmine is coming back for the man who killed her. After a late night rendezvous with a stranger goes sideways, Jasmine finds herself waking to a man holding a gun loaded with silver bullets. In her final moments, she hears her killer utter her long-lost father's name. Her world should have ended when she tumbled from that seventeenth-story window . . . Instead, she dug herself out of her own grave.

As Jasmine deals with curses and problems caused in the wake of the Queen's departure, whispers grow about her father. Tylindale MacConaugh has returned. Sent across state borders, she finds Eli on the receiving end of a manhunt initiated by Tylindale. Jasmine is forced to protect Eli, angering her father enough to bring him out of hiding. Reunions are not always sweet. Tylindale demands to know where Deshawne is in the hopes of awakening the magical power that granted him immortality. Jasmine refuses, but her father forces her to show him where Deshawne lies tied at the bottom of the lake.

Jasmine has been thrown head-first into the deep end. She's barely come to terms with her emerging gifts and the initiation into a new pack when she finds herself caught between two warring factions. Weres and necromancers just don't mix. Jasmine's grandmother believes helping the Circle of Peers will help them find out more about what Jasmine has become. Yet all signs point to Jasmine being on the wrong side of history.

Following Blood and Iron and The Center Cannot Hold, The Victorious Opposition triumphantly concludes Harry Turtledove's American Empire trilogy - a masterful saga of alternate history. War is brewing yet again as the U.S.A. struggles to occupy Canada, and the C.S.A. begins forcing blacks into concentration camps.