The Gap into Madness: Chaos and Order (110 page)

Patrice
didn’t hesitate. “Aye, Captain.”

Roughly
he threw
Punisher
into a turn so hard that Min’s vision went grey at the
edges, and her heart seemed to falter against her ribs. Nevertheless she kept
watching the screens until she saw
Trumpet’s
blip wink out in a
characteristic burst of gap emission. The gap scout had gone into tach.

Ten
minutes of brutal g and matter cannon fire passed before Cray announced that
Trumpet
had left a Class-1 UMCP homing signal trace behind her.

This is the end of

CHAOS AND ORDER.

The story concludes in

THE GAP INTO RUIN

THIS DAY ALL GODS DIE.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR

STEPHEN R. DONALDSON made
his writing debut in 1977 with the first Thomas Covenant books; the series
quickly became an international bestseller and earned him worldwide critical
acclaim. Stephen Donaldson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and currently lives in
New Mexico, where he is working on the fifth and final novel in the Gap series.