Hi there! First time I found this forum, read my first HH novel 22 years ago.
I would be very grateful for some help idenrifying this novel. I read it about 12-15 years ago, and I think I can pretty accurately describe how it ended, for your identification. I want to pick up where I left off.
It was around the second or maybe third novel that used LAC carriers, and it ended something like this:
The last chapter before epilogue: a sizeable enemy fleet is invading a Manticore-held system somewhere, I think it was Havenites attacking.
As they start approaching the point where they can fire on the heart of the system, the Manticorans reveal the next new technology changing the balance of power, past the stage of LACs: a system-wide missile-contact network.
I think the Manticorans fire just one missile, from an absurdly long range, after which it shouldn't possibly be able to navigate, but their new inter-system network lets the missile travel and explode just in front of the enemy task force, with pinpoint precision.
This lets the Havenites know that they already are in range of all defending vessels' missile batteries, and what's more, they have been from the moment they arrived in the system.
The Havenites stop dead in their tracks and surrender unconditionally (or they flee, I don't know, it was 15 years ago).
Can anyone tell me which HH-novel ended this way? I'd love to pick up after that novel.
Grateful for any help.
