Ensign Ballard: Skullduggery on Chalcedony

By Bob McMicken

Ensign Mike Gallagher, a recent Royal Naval Academy graduate, is assigned is a engineering officer on a nuclear-powered icebreaker. Officers must prove their competence on ocean-going ships to qualify for assignment to a sublight starship.
This promised to be a routine assignment until a freighter captain reports sighting a previously known species of sea serpent. A scientific mission to uncharted waters encounters off-world slavers and a hitherto-unknown community of Basque shepherds operating a clandestine sheep ranch to dodge the tax collector. As a more or less expendable junior officer, Ballard finds himself in the thick of things.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CJ3X9H34
• ISBN13: 9798858449713
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"