The Rabelais Alliance    by Mel Keegan
Price: $10.99 USD. 177950 words. Published by DreamCraft  on September 4, 2011. .
In a part of space so terrible it is known as Hellgate, the Fleet supercarriers hunt the starship wreckers, privateers who, alone, navigate the Rabelais Drift and hold the keys to survival on the frontier. The Resalq are not the dead race humans suppose; we share a common enemy known only as the Zunshu. Neil Travers and Curtis Marin are at the hub of spiraling events which must culminate in war.