Dante Maxima Seven ...a world known to its inhabitants as Imprima. A world where Madragi - huge social/economic entities wealthy beyond compare - control the fate of millions...Years ago, William Riker was part of the Starfleet delegation that opened Imprima to the Federation. Now the disappearance of an old friend - Teller Conlon, who also served on that team - draws Riker and the Enterprise across the galaxy, back to Imprima. The jewel known as Fortune's Light - one of Madraga Criathis's most priceless possessions - has been stolen. And Teller Conlon stands accused of its theft. Now Riker must discover the truth behind the disappearance of both his friend and Fortune's Light, no easy task on a world where treachery and intrigue are commonplace...and where even an old friend's embrace may conceal the deadly bite of a dagger's blade.
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Michael Jan Friedman is the author of more than forty science fiction and fantasy books, among them many Star Trek and Star Trek: Next Generation novels.
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A very enjoyable detective story
14 Jan 2004
By R. Spottiswood
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This a detective style story: running down leads, sorting true from false clues, and getting shot at or otherwise threatened all along. I usually have various complaints about Friedman's writing style, but not for this one. There is a lot of action, mostly travel and questioning people, with some combat, and all of it is well told. The knife fight is especially good. The descriptions in general are very good, very clear. The characters are vivid and with plenty of depth. Riker's female Impriman partner is a strong, well developed character, not as devious but with more common sense. There is a fair amount of humour, and a couple of scenes are real gems. The plot of the story is interesting and turns out to be surprisingly intricate. The pacing at which the plot is revealed is well judged. In addition, we are given the back story of Riker's original visit to the planet at nicely judged key points in the development of the main plot. All in all, this is a very good and enjoyable story.
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ST-TNG: Fortune's Light
28 Jun 2003
By Joe Zika
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Star Trek - The Next Generation: Forture's Light written by Michael Jan Friedman is a well-written book involving a detective stroy plot mixed with sports fiction as the Enterprise crew trys to solve a mystery and recover a theft of the Madraga Criathis family seal the Fortune's Light... that is supposedly stolen by Teller Conlon one of Commander William Riker's best friends.
As this plot unfolds, William Riker is working on a baseball holodeck program and is called away to the surface of Dante Maxima Seven where the government is controlled by huge social/economic entites that control the general population, to find his friend Teller Conlon. Riker leaves the baseball program in the holodeck and Data tries it out. This plot gives Data a real workout with all of the baseball speak and the nuances of the game as Data tries to understand and play the game.
Both plots were well-written as they kept the readers interest, for two unlikely plots to blend together and form the backbone of the book's plots, they melded quite well. This book is well-toughtout as well as well-written and you can tell it by the way the book flows. The only thing that I can't see is Riker being a detective... he's more like a bull in a chna store type who's rough and tumble antics get him out of a lot of tight spots, but Friedman used this quality to an advantage as Riker is teamed up with a local woman who's sole purpose is to help Riker investigate and they run into a lot of impediments along the way. Riker is no "Columbo" but he gets the job done with action-adventure following along with the mystery.
I gave the book only four stars as the character development was a little shallow at times and the plot was rather predictable. Only for those reasons, otherwise the story flowed well and you were entertained as you read on it the book.
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Riker's Past
17 April 2013
By Rapture07
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It's nice to know that we finally get some more information about Riker's past. So far in the series I have gotten a few snip its hear and there but to actually have Fortunes Light about Riker's past makes things easier to understand what he has gone through before he was a Starfleet commander. I highly recommend this book to someone that doesn't know or like Commander Riker. I didn't really care for him very much before I read this book but now I see him in a better light. I am excited to see what else he does. Read on trekkies!
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