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Revision as of 05:04, 7 February 2006

Cover image.
Author: Michael Jan Friedman
Illustrator: Unknown
Publisher: Pocket Books
Series: TOS
Published: 1 July 1994
Pages: 340
Year:
Stardate: unkown
Reference #: ISBN 0671869108

Dr. Leonard McCoy confront his past and the wife he left behind!

Shadows on the Sun is set during the TOS Movie era. This is a McCoy story that fleshes out his backstory.

Summary

From the book jacket
As a young doctor with a beautiful family and a promising medical career, Dr. Leonard McCoy thought he had it all. But when the woman he loved betrayed him, McCoy fled to Starfleet, hoping to lose his pain in the depths of space. Now, more than forty years later, the Enterprise and her crew are ordered to transport a group of mediators to the planet Ssan, a world where assassination is a time-honored tradition, and McCoy is surprised to learn that his ex-wife, now remarried, is one of the mediators. And before he can come to terms with his conflicted feelings for his former love, she and Captain Kirk are trapped on Susan, and McCoy is caught in an explosive civil war, the only one with the power to save the woman who once nearly destroyed him.

Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.


Background Information

The cover of this book erroniously shows gaseous emissions from the nacelles, as if they were rockets.

Characters

Captain James T. Kirk
Dr. Leonard McCoy
Susan


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