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The Cobra War Trilogy: Cobra Alliance / Cobra Guardian / Cobra Gamble
The Cobra War Trilogy Cobra Alliance / Cobra Guardian / Cobra Gamble Author:Timothy Zahn Contains all three novels of the Cobra War series by New York Times #1 best-selling author Timothy Zahn. Cobras: elite soldiers augmented with bionic technology. These modifications include built-in weapons, sensory enhancements, effectively unbreakable bones, and their characteristic combat reflexes. These cybernetic modifications to the ... more »human body are invisible to casual inspection and most are permanent, and allow the soldiers to appear as ordinary unarmed civilians, allowing them to be effective resistance leaders. All of their weaponry is controlled by a "nanocomputer" that is implanted inside their skull. The design of the nanocomputer renders it impossible to reprogram, and its location makes it next-to-impossible to remove without killing the Cobra.
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Cobra Alliance [Cobra War • 1] (2009) / novel by Timothy Zahn: Earth had won its war with the Troft because of the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. Now the Moreau family, filled with Cobra warriors, is seen as a problem, not a solution. An urgent cry for help arrives from the secretive planet Qasama. Is it a true distress signal, or a trap for the Cobras? Jin Moreau and her son Merrick must journey into danger to find out.
Cobra Guardian [Cobra War • 2] (2011) / novel by Timothy Zahn: One young Cobra must forge a new political order as a deadly alien enemy strikes. Earth has won a previous war with the deadly Troft and grown soft, but now the aliens are back! Jasmine Moreau Broom, descendant of a now-legendary Cobra family, must rally the Cobras to war after a devastating attack on every planet with Cobras on it nearly succeeds in wiping them out entirely. The key to victory lies with Jasmine’s quest to uncover a secret that might turn the tide while searching on a world that is under full-on alien attack.
Cobra Gamble [Cobra War • 3] (2012) / novel by Timothy Zahn: The Troft invasions of Qasama and the Cobra Worlds has had at least one result: it has turned long-time antagonists into uneasy and unwilling allies. As the aliens battle to consolidate their conquered territories, a small group of Cobras and Qasaman Djinn work together to create a victory that will rock the invaders to the core. Now one young Cobra must forge a new political order as a devastating alien enemy strikes—an enemy more deadly than any humanity has ever faced.