The duke of uranium
by John Barnes
When vicious thugs kidnap his girlfriend, Sesh, teenager Jak Jinnaka discovers that Sesh is really a princess from a distant world and that his uncle is a spymaster who has been secretly grooming Jak as a secret agent, as he embarks on his first assignment to ransom Sesh from her captor, the Duke of Uranium, who controls all fissionable material in human space.
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