Mercenary Warfare Series by Zen DiPietro

Cabot gave up the mercenary life years ago. He's perfectly happy with his life as a trader and shopkeep on a Planetary Alliance Cooperative space station. He gets to meet interesting people, enjoy all the comforts and safety of the PAC, and also do just a wee bit of shady dealing on the side. It's a nice life.Unfortunately, the alliance is falling apart... moreCabot gave up the mercenary life years ago. He's perfectly happy with his life as a trader and shopkeep on a Planetary Alliance Cooperative space station. He gets to meet interesting people, enjoy all the comforts and safety of the PAC, and also do just a wee bit of shady dealing on the side. It's a nice life.Unfortunately, the alliance is falling apart. When he's tasked with a critical mission that only a trader can pull off, he has no choice but to accept, in order to preserve the PAC and maintain his cushy existence.He'll have to broker a deal with a reptilian species that is notoriously difficult to interact with. To accomplish that, he'll also need to resurrect some of the criminal skills he left behind over a decade ago.Worse, he needs the help of both his former best friend and his worst enemy, who is also his ex-wife.She's the reason he went legit. Well, mostly legit.Nagali is a ruthless, chaotic, pleasure-seeking pirate. As much as she likes lying and cheating, she likes torturing Cabot even more. She's also beautiful, brilliant, and hard to resist.There's a reason he hasn't seen her since his fortune-hunting privateer days. Enjoy a fun adventure with delightful characters, unique species, and lots of heart.Books in the Dragonfire Station universe in written order: Each series stands alone and need not be read in written order. Dragonfire Station Book 1: Translucid Dragonfire Station Book 2: Fragments Dragonfire Station Book 3: Coalescence (series complete) Intersections: Dragonfire Station Short Stories Mercenary Warfare Book 1: Selling Out Mercenary Warfare Book 2: Blood Money Mercenary Warfare Book 3: Hell to Pay Mercenary Warfare Book 4: Calculated Risk Mercenary Warfare Book 5: Going for Broke (series complete) Chains of Command Book 1: New Blood Chains of Command Book 2: Blood and Bone Chains of Command Book 3: Cut to the Bone Chains of Command Book 4: Out for Blood(series complete) less

Double crosses, insults, and clashing personalities--and that's just within Cabot's own crew. He, Nagali, and Omar are off on another adventure!An asset has gone dark, and Cabot's tasked with finding out why.He ends up deep inside a dirty operation he wants no part of, among the worst dregs of society. It's the kind of thing that Cabot wants nothing to do with, but someone has to do something, and he keeps drawing the short straw.Luck is not on his side these days... moreDouble crosses, insults, and clashing personalities--and that's just within Cabot's own crew. He, Nagali, and Omar are off on another adventure!An asset has gone dark, and Cabot's tasked with finding out why.He ends up deep inside a dirty operation he wants no part of, among the worst dregs of society. It's the kind of thing that Cabot wants nothing to do with, but someone has to do something, and he keeps drawing the short straw.Luck is not on his side these days.On the bright side, someone new has joined his team. Peregrine's a hard-as-nails special ops officer, which means Nagali is probably going to get brained at some point if she doesn't tone down her behavior.Like that's going to happen.He'll have to get creative to keep this group long enough together to solve the problem at hand. But then, getting creative and working his underhanded mercenary magic is what he does best.It won't be easy to solve this problem while keeping Nagali's brain intact.He's going to need all his skills for this one.Books in the Dragonfire Station universe in written order:Each series stands alone and need not be read in written order.Dragonfire Station Book 1: TranslucidDragonfire Station Book 2: FragmentsDragonfire Station Book 3: Coalescence(series complete)Intersections: Dragonfire Station Short StoriesMercenary Warfare Book 1: Selling OutMercenary Warfare Book 2: Blood MoneyMercenary Warfare Book 3: Hell to PayMercenary Warfare Book 4: Calculated RiskMercenary Warfare Book 5: Going for Broke(series complete)Chains of Command Book 1: New BloodChains of Command Book 2: Blood and BoneChains of Command Book 3: Cut to the BoneChains of Command Book 4: Out for Blood(series complete) less