Sequel to Crown of Slaves

Amazon.com has just posted the pre-order link for Torch of Freedom, the sequel to David Weber and Eric Flint's Crown of Slaves.

Of course Mesa wasn't going to take such a blow lying down. Particularly not when it was a publicity embarrassment as well as a major economic loss.

Still, I'm wondering if this is going to go a lot deeper than just Mesa's attitude that it's above the law, and draw in some politicians at very high levels in several other star nations. Especially if it were to expose some hypocrites in the process.