I'm (very slowly) sifting my way through David Weber's
Honor Harrington series. (I'm alternating back and forth between these and the Ian Fleming James Bond novels.) Aside from some poorly-timed infodumps I'm greatly enjoying them.
Anyway, this is the US version of the cover for
Field of Dishonor, the fourth(ish) book in the franchise. I say "(ish)" because it's really a transitional book, tying off a plot thread from the third book and then setting up the fifth.
And it's not bad. You've got your sci-fi setting and your grimly determined heroine, so it's not like it's unfaithful to the source material.
This is the French cover:
This I want a desktop-background-sized version of. It's the same basic concept, woman with a gun in a sci-fi setting, but this one captures the mood of the novel's end perfectly. (Basically what happens in the novel is our heroine's love interest is murdered and she throws her career away to avenge him.) I haven't seen a lack-of-closure-in-a-revenge-plot-even-though-revenge-was-had conveyed this well since that two-second closeup of Timothy Dalton's face after the last explosion in
Licence to Kill.
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