Honor Among Enemies (Honor Harringtong, Book 6) – David Weber

Title: Honor Among Enemies

Series: Honor Harrington, Book 6

Author: David Weber

Genre: Science Fiction

Finally we find Honor Harrington back on track in the RMN (Royal Manticoran Navy), but the politics which had originally pushed her away, have manipulated her return to be  a mission which could be the end of her. She’s leading a quartet of Q-ships into the Solarian League to try and clean up some of the shipping lanes. The ships are over-gunned, but virtually armor-less.

Things would be fine, for her ships would out-gun any pirates she might come across – but not any really military-grade ships. Like, say, for instance, the small group of ships the Peeps have sent into the shipping lanes to poach on the Manticoran traders. Yep,just as our hero has started to get settled on her new planet of Grayson (and being an admiral in their Navy!) she dives back into the thick of it with the RMN.

This is a classic Harrington novel, at least in my opinion. You’ve a little bit of political intrigue woven in the midst of the more militaristically based narrative – enough political maneuvering to work against the heroine.

Weber also manages to work in a few other characters and explore them pretty well. This novel, in the series, brings Honor back from being ostracized by the RMN, setting up the circumstances which spiral out of Harrington’s control in the next novel (In Enemy Hands) and the climactic novel which follows that (Echos of Honor) – both of which are a high point of the entire series, in my mind.

The pace is very solid not lagging too much in many places (though there are a few), and Weber definitely continues to show the depth of his vision for the ‘Honorverse’ and everything that develops and goes on there.

I do highly recommend this novel to sci-fi and strategy fans alike. This is one which you could read relatively well without having read any of the others in the series, though you might miss out on a few of the character nuances and some more subtle developments.

Worldview: Secular

Age Recommendation: Mainly due to the violence I would suggest High School age.