Rigel's Revenge by Ron Harris, Nigel Brooks, Said Hassan, and Ross Harris Science Fiction 1987

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Harper and Elliot together formed one of the great news-gathering teams of the 22nd century. Their coverage of the Re-unification War was carried by every major Federation comm-network, as the Fleet troops brought the insurgent colonies back into the Federation's grip.

Then, one day - in his quest to stay ahead - Elliot went too far. He persuaded Harper that they should become agents for the Alterian Corps, an influential group dedicated to the cause of peace. In return for their work, the Corps would guarantee them scoop after scoop.

Their first mission was to Rigel V, where one region still held out against the conquering Federation troops. The rebels claimed to have a Doomsday Machine and would wreak the ultimate revenge if the Federation refused to withdraw from the planet.

Elliot was smuggled in by the Alterian Corps as a Rigellian trooper. His mission, to discover the whereabouts of the Doomsday Machine and report to Harper, who was to follow one week later, in his true role as a front-line reporter. Harper's instructions: to meet Elliot, at night, in a certain back street in the occupied sector of the town...

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