- Mass Market Paperback: 373 pages
- Publisher: Avon Books (Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 038080784X
- ISBN-13: 978-0380807840
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.7 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,284,023 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Saved by a radical surgery that illegally enhanced her body with alien DNA, Captain Jani Kilian finds herself enmeshed in a renewed conflict between the human and idomeni species.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
"Rules of Conflict" is book no. 2 in the Jani Killian series. 20 years Jani has been on the run from the Commonwealth Services for a murder she committed in the line of duty. Around the same time she was severely damaged in a conflict and has been genetically altered. Idomeni genes have been introduced into her system and her body has had to struggle with the effects of this since.
In this book Jani is finally found by the Commonwealth and brought to earth. She remeets Tsescha, the the idomeni who wants her as his suborn. Accepting herself as a hybrid is more than Jani can do. Being one of a kind is not as exciting as one would think.
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A winning interstellar read
1 Oct 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Almost two decades ago, Jani Killian served on a diplomatic mission to the Idomeni. Her superior officer broke regulations and interfered in the local civil war. In the subsequent dispute, Jani kills him, but almost dies too from an explosion. The doctors on board, Shroud and Parini saved Jani's life when they introduce Idomeni DNA into her body. Jani went underground so she would not face charges of mutiny and murder.
Eighteen years later, her body seems to be rejecting the foreign DNA. Desperate for help, Jani checks into an obscure off-world medical facility where her past still catches up with her. However, instead of a trial and conviction, Jani, accompanied by an intel officer and an archivist, begins to investigate what really happened on Idomeni and why everyone who was involved wants it kept buried at all costs.
RULES OF CONFLICT is an exciting science fiction tale that proves Kristin Smith's debut novel (see CODE OF CONDUCT) is no fluke. The story line is complex due to the interstellar conspiracy to hide the past. Surprisingly, and this further demonstrates the author's talent, the intricacy of the plot actually augments the non-stop, fast-paced action. Ms. Smith's talent resides with her characters who appear real whether they are Idomeni, earthlings, or the reengineered hybrid heroine. Ms. Smith takes the X-Files into outer space.
Harriet Klausner
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Promises Kept
10 Dec 2003
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This is the second of Kristine Smith's "Jani Kilian" novels, and it's a great read. Smith's first offering, "Code of Conduct," showed promise: it was brilliantly written although confusing and overly flashbacky. This one is even better written, if that's possible, and not at all flashbacky.
At the end of the first book Jani, the cat-eyed "augmented" hybridized (against her will) military document examiner who once apparently killed her commanding officer during a civil war among the alien Idomeni (some of whose DNA she now carries) seemed to have got clean away after solving a murder mystery. But in this tale she quickly gets pulled back in, and the next thing she knows she's up to her neck in diplomatic negotiations, while her body enhancements are failing (fix the chick's knee and get her a new liver--STAT).
Smith's plotting is delightfully over the top although confusing, and maybe she's done that on purpose. She obviously wants to focus attention on Jani and her mob (a few chapters are told from viewpoints other than Jani's) while the diplomatic events, having to do with delicate human-Idomeni negotiations, are kept murkily in the background. And so what I took, in the first book, to be "first novel" faults may in fact be deliberate. No doubt more shall be revealed in the author's next volume (the third of four), "Law of Survival." I look forward to it.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Awesome second book in a awesome series
22 Nov 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have to admit, I normally don't like reading a trilogy or series of books. Waiting for the next book to come out just is a pain... especially if you're really hooked into a good triolgy like this one.
The wait was WELL worth it. The follow-up to Code of Conduct is amazing. Enough intrigue, mystery and conspiracies to make an X-files fan VERY happy with a dash of action thrown in for good measure. All in all a recipe for an excellend sci-fi book. Jani Killian is one of the most kick-butt heroines I've read about. Very human, but someone well worth cheering for. The secondary characters are very well defined as well. The Idomeni culture is superbly described, alien yet familiar in some ways.
Before reading this, you definitely should pick up Code of Conduct and read it. It's well worth your time.
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