Mercenary

Its place in Bio of a Space Tyrant

Mercenary is book 2 in the Bio of a Space Tyrant series. It follows Refugee. It is followed by Politician. See the full Bio of a Space Tyrant reading order.

Hope Hubris begins the series as a teenage refugee fleeing famine and violence on Callisto, one of many colonized moons of a settled solar system, and ends it as one of the most powerful and feared political and military figures in that same system. Each novel tracks a distinct stage of his rise: the desperate flight from Callisto, a career as a mercenary and later officer in a system riven by class and ethnic warfare between the settled moons of Jupiter, a turn toward electoral politics, and finally his…