Zero Sum Game

Zero Sum Game is a novel by David Mack, the first in the Star Trek: Typhon Pact series, released in. The novel features the crew of the and explores the culture and society of the Breen.

Summary

 * From the book jacket
 * A spy for the Typhon Pact – a new political rival of the Federation – steals the plans for Starfleet's newest technological advance: the slipstream drive. To stop the Typhon Pact from unlocking the drive's secrets, Starfleet Intelligence recruits a pair of genetically enhanced agents: Dr. Julian Bashir, of station Deep Space 9, and Sarina Douglas, a woman whose talents Bashir helped bring to fruition, and whom Bashir thinks of as his long-lost true love.


 * Bashir and Douglas are sent to infiltrate the mysterious species known as the Breen, find the hidden slipstream project, and destroy it. Meanwhile, light-years away, Captain Ezri Dax and her crew on the USS Aventine play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a Typhon Pact fleet that stands between them and the safe retrieval of Bashir and Douglas from hostile territory.

Characters

 * Julian Bashir
 * Ezri Dax
 * Elias Vaughn
 * Sarina Douglas
 * Ro Laren
 * Quark
 * Alynna Nechayev
 * Leonard James Akaar
 * Jack
 * Patrick
 * Lauren
 * Simon Tarses

Background information

 * The novel was announced at the Shore Leave convention on . It was originally scheduled to be the second novel in the series, but swapped with Seize the Fire in the schedule.
 * The cover art was revealed by Mack on . Mark Rademaker designed the Aventine for the cover.

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Zero Sum Game