First Strike: The Complete Series (Galactic Coalition Academy, #22)

When Laksha wakes up as a middling recruit on an Academy training ship, she knows something has gone critically wrong. A Barbarian spy, for the past five years, she's been infiltrating the soft-bellied Coalition in the hopes of striking a blow that counts. For too long, the Coalition has lorded over the Milky Way. That's meant to change with her.
But someone else gets there first. Dale Simpson is a state-of-the-art cybernetic. Half-man, half-machine, it's taken him a long time to come to ter...