The Lotus Eaters — Tom Kratman

Sometimes paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness.

Carrera's won his war, and inflicted a horrific revenge upon his enemies. But there are wars after wars.

- The Tauran Union is planning an attack.
- The criminals of neighboring states are already attacking, and threatening to embroil him in a war with the planet's premier power.
- His only living son is under fire among the windswept mountains of Pashtia.
- An enemy fleet is hunting his submarines.
- His organization has been infiltrated by spies.
- One of the two governments of his adopted country, Balboa, is trying to destroy everything he's built and reinstitute rule by a corrupt oligarchy.
- Worst of all, perhaps, he, himself, bearing a crushing burden of guilt, isn't quite the man he once was.

Fortunately, the man he once was, was lucky enough to marry the right woman....