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Jefferson Nighthawk, the original Widowmaker, is married and retired, looking forward to a peaceul old age. But when his two clones try to kill each other, he realizes that he can't turn his back on the situation -- or the fact that there is an alien menace out there that will require the combined might of all three Widowmakers, if even that is enough.

From Booklist

Despite rather great differences among them, three of the toughest bounty hunters in the galaxy must join forces to fight an alien menace. Jefferson Nighthawk, the first and original Widowmaker of previous Resnick series, has long been retired and wants to quite literally cultivate his garden. His immediate clone, Jason Newman, is thinking of retiring under a new identity and emulating him. Jeff Nighthawk, clone of Jason, hence clone of Jefferson, is a crusader determined to protect the weak and the innocent regardless of incidental moral ambiguities--and Jason knows too much about moral ambiguities to let that pass unquestioned or unfought. Yet all three come to something of an uneasy truce, thanks to said alien menace. Resnick's usual gifts for hard-boiled space opera, including even plausible future weaponry and not too much cynicism, keep things humming toward an ending indicating possible sequels. Roland Green
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