The novel “Starship: Rebel” by Mike Resnick was published for the first time in 2008. It’s the fourth novel in the “Starship” series and follows “Starship: Mercenary”.

Captain Wilson Cole, a former Republic officer, is earning a reputation as a mercenary. In command of a fleet increasingly large led by the former Republic starship Theodore Roosevelt, he’s doing bigger and bigger military operations. His enemies know that he’ll leave them a way out and that he’ll keep his word, which helps to limit the actual battles.

The bounty on Wilson Cole’s head keeps on increasing but generally the Republic Navy is too busy in its war against the Teroni Federation to hunt him in the Frontier territories. However, a dramatic event radically changes the situation and convinces Cole that the time has come to use the force against the starships operating in the Frontier.