The Sum of Things — Roland J. Green

The diplomacy of war was being tested to the limit as terrorist actions on the planet Victoria threatened to pitch Federation and Alliance alike into the all-out combat neither wanted. But the greatest danger came from the lizardlike Merishi and the enormous Baernoi, who were manipulating all the human factions for their own benefit. The Merishi would do anything for a profit, while the Baernoi would willingly sacrifice humans and Merishi alike for political power. But there were also unidentified forces who had struck two deadly blows, dropping a fusion bomb with devastating effect and staging a direct attack on Victoria's Government house. And suddenly Victoria rocked with a chain reaction of destruction and death that could overwhelm them all--in an explosion of violence that could prove beyond the power of the Shenandoah's troops to stop...