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On Basilisk Station by David Weber - Baen Books
www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/0743435710/0743435710.htm, posted 2009 by peter in free literature scifi toread
Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system.
But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They've made her mad.