I’m happy to announce that The Empire of Ruin, the fourth book in the Chronicles of the Second Interstellar Empire of Mankind, was published yesterday. In this book, Michael Glover and his crew accept a commission to spy for Naval Intelligence. The slaver network is expanding and the Second Empire is under siege. All attempts to identify the enemy have failed. The Empire has almost unlimited power, but power is no use with no one to fight. Michael Glover has accepted the mission, but he’s going to carry it out in his own way, because Michael Glover has secrets of his own…