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Steve Perry (born August 31, 1947) is a science fiction author. He has written books in the Star Wars, Alien and Conan universes, but is perhaps best known for the Matador series.
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Published works

Matador series

(original setting)
  1. The Man Who Never Missed (1985)
  2. Matadora (1986)
  3. The Machiavelli Interface (1986)
  4. The Omega Cage (1988)
  5. The 97th Step (1989)
  6. The Albino Knife (1991)
  7. Black Steel (1992)
  8. Brother Death (1992)
  9. The Musashi Flex (2006)

Conan series

  1. Conan the Fearless(1986)
  2. Conan the Defiant (1987)
  3. Conan the Indomitable(1989)
  4. Conan the Free Lance (1990)
  5. Conan the Formidable (1990)

Star Wars series

  1. Shadows of the Empire (1996)
  2. Evolution (2000)

Aliens

  1. Earth Hive (1992)
  2. Nightmare Asylum (1993)
  3. The Female War (1993) with Stephani Perry

Aliens Versus Predator

  1. Prey (1994) with Stephani Perry
  2. Hunter's Planet (1994) with David Bischoff

Tom Clancy's Net Force

  1. Breaking Point (2000)
  2. Point of Impact (2001)
  3. Cybernation (2001)
  4. State of War (2003)

Leonard Nimoy's Primortals

  1. Target Earth (1997)

Stellar Ranger

  1. Stellar Ranger (1994)
  2. Lone Star (1994)

Time Machine

  1. Sword of the Samurai (1984) with J. Michael Reaves
  2. Civil War Secret Agent (1984)

Venture Silk

  1. Spindoc (1994)
  2. The Forever Drug (1995)

The Matador series

The Matador series chronicle the birth, evolution, victory, and aftermath of a rebellion which overthrows a corrupt and declining interstellar government ("The Confederation") based on Earth.

The Man Who Never Missed

The rebellion proper begins in The Man Who Never Missed, in which Emile Khadaji deserts from the Confederation military after a particularly bloody battle and religious experience, eventually joining up with a bartending martial artist monk named Pen, who teaches Kadaji the art used by his order, Sumito ("The 97 steps"), before setting him on his own path. Kadaji learns economics and politics and military science and eventually decides he has to overthrow the Confederation. This he does by setting up a bar on a planet named Greaves, and while luring soldiers in by day, hunts and paralyzes them by night. Over many months, he paralyzes 2,388 of the 10,00 troops on the planet, only missing with a handful of shots, which he carefully conceals. Eventually, as the first paralyzed soldier awakens, he attacks the commander, is trapped in his bar, and apparently killed.

Afterwards, the Confederation military realize that he apparently knocked out almost 2,400 soldiers without missing a single time, a record which becomes a legend, striking fear into the Confederation military ranks.

Matadora

The Machiavelli Interface

The Omega Cage

The 97th Step

The Albino Knife

It takes more than death to kill an evil man.

Her father is a hero, a legend, the man who changed the history of the galaxy. The Man Who Never Missed-a man she never met. The Confederation defeated, Emile Khadaji disappeared, and now she must find him.

Her mother is a pawn in a dead man's game, bait in a trap to lure her father out of hiding. Marcus Jefferson Wall died on the day the revolution was won, but technology has given him a terrifying new way for the hand of vengeance to stretch beyond the grave.

She is the Matadors' secret weapon, an Albino Exotic bred for her sensuous beauty-but trained in the deadly arts. She is... The Albino Knife

Black Steel

Honor demands blood.

She is a sensei, a teacher, a master of the martial arts. Her weapon is a 400-year-old sword forged in secret; her ambition is to find the perfect student, one worthy of her blade.

He is a thief, a poet, a scholar, a soldier-and one of the best of the Matadors, the elite cadre of bodyguards who sparked a revolution. Now, stripped of his honor, forbidden the weapons that set him apart, he must begin again.

Their enemy is hidden in the House of Black Steel, protected by power and money. He has stolen her secret, and his honor, and nearly claimed their lives. Their only hope of survival-and vengeance-lies in the strength of... Black Steel

Brother Death

Characters:
Saval Bork (Matador)
Tazzimi Bork (Peace Officer, Assistant Chief in Leijona), sister to Saval Bork
Veate Bork (Albino Exotic), wife to Saval Bork, mother of Saval Antoon, daughter to Emile Khadaji (Matador, The Man Who Never Missed) and Juete (Albino Exotic, thief)
Sleel (Matador), husband to Kee (sensai, bladeswoman)
Ruul Oro (Comedian, tv personality), ex-lover to Tazzimi Bork
Ndugu Kifo (Brother Death, the Unique, Leader of the Few, Temple of Despair, Leijona)
Brother Mkono (The Hand, Third among the Nine, main assassin of the Few)
Missel (forensics lab technician for the Peace Officers, electronics expert)
Noe Teng Bicho (owner of The Oxidized Owl a popular restaurant in Leijona, sex-changer, nicknamed Pickle due to the preservation of her former sexual organ in a jar in her office)

Terror strides across the galaxy

The elite who command the wealth of an entire planet. Each is given a warning of impending assassination. Each is surrounded by bodyguards. But in every case, the death-stroke falls on time...

The veterans of a thousand offworld battles. He is the Matador; she's the quick-draw chief of the local cools. They alone can stop the march of Brother Death...

Against them all stand the Few, the fanatical secret brotherhood. Armed with the secrets of a lost civilization, they revel in their own powers of destruction. And they obey one voice... Brother Death

The Musashi Flex

Star Wars

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