Lizard's Lair: A Novella Prequel To "The Survivors"

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN LIBERATING HUMAN SLAVES IS AGAINST THE LAW? In this "prequel" to the science-fiction novel, The Survivors, Colonel Kendrick Landry and Major Will Adams return as the crew of the starcraft Aurora travels to Alpha Centauri B-III and learns that the descendants of the crew of The Green Horizon, Earth's first interstellar starcraft, are living in centuries-old enslavement to a lizard-like race. Alliance law would sanction even offensive action against the lizard government--permitting its overthrow by human resistance fighters--but only if the lizard government has first attacked the Aurora. Major Adams devises a scheme to provoke an attack by the lizard command. The lizards attack the Aurora with devastating force. Now, the Aurora crew will be fortunate to ensure their own survival, let alone assist in liberation of the lizards' human slaves!