Résumé de l'éditeur
Problèmes au paradis
Le colonel John Sheppard sait que la journée s'annonce difficile lorsqu'il se réveille dans un Jumper écrasé, une blessure à la tête et aucun souvenir de la façon dont il est arrivé là.
Et les choses ne font qu'empirer.
Commotionné, loin de la porte des étoiles et avec pour seul coéquipier restant Teyla, elle-même blessée, Sheppard se retrouve rapidement prisonnier de la population locale. Et alors qu'il reconstitue peu à peu les événements, il se rend compte que son équipe est dispersée à travers un archipel tropical, incapable de communiquer ou de regagner la porte des étoiles. Et pour ne rien arranger, un croiseur wraith rôde dans le ciel.
Pendant ce temps, Ronon et le docteur Zelenka forment un duo improbable dans l'espoir de quitter leur île et de retrouver la porte des étoiles. Quant au docteur McKay ? Il veut juste réussir à la faire fonctionner...
Trouble in paradise
Colonel John Sheppard knows it's going to be a bad day when he wakes up in a downed Puddle Jumper with a head wound and no memory of how he got there.
Things don't get any better.
Concussed, far from the Stargate, and with his only remaining teammate, Teyla, injured, Sheppard soon finds himself a prisoner of the local population. And as he gradually pieces the situation together he realises that his team is scattered across a tropical archipelago, unable to communicate with each other or return to the Stargate. And to make matters worse, there's a Wraith cruiser in the skies above.
Meanwhile, Ronon and Doctor Zelenka find themselves in an unlikely partnership as they seek a way off their island and back to the Stargate. And Doctor McKay? He just wants to get the Stargate working...
Extrait de l'éditeur
Extrait du chapitre 7
"Something's not right about this."
"I share your sense of unease," Teyla said. John had spoken the words that were behind the creeping sense of wrongness she felt. "I have seen other worlds with as much, but they were in fear of the Wraith. They had precautions, plans. These people do not even seem to know what we mean. Why have the Wraith not come?"
John shook his head.
Teyla picked up a piece of fruit and continued. "There are, for better or worse, three responses to the Wraith. To hide, as the Genii do, and hope that the Wraith will not discover the extent of one's civilization. To defy them and fight, as the Satedans did. Or to disperse and give them no targets, as my people did. All of the peoples of this galaxy that I have met do one or another of these. These people..." Her voice trailed off as the barge came upon another large stone wharf, passing a barge that lay tied up beside it, cattle being loaded aboard. "These people are a puzzle."
"Something's rotten," John said. "I don't like it." He took the radio from his pocket. The light flashed standby.
"You will try to call them again?"
He shook his head. "The battery is low. And we'll hear them when they call us in range.""Surely by now they are looking..."
Chronologie
L'histoire de ce roman se déroule durant la saison 2 de Stargate Atlantis, une semaine et demi après les événements de l'épisode Les condamnés.
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