Synopses & Reviews
A thrilling spin-off from Jack Campbells The Lost Fleet series, The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight delivered excellent tales of space battles and struggles against tyrants and aliens.”* Now the New York Times bestselling author returns with the next chapter in the overthrow of the Syndicate Worlds oppression
Following a successful coup, the leaders of the rebel Midway Star System struggle to forge a government free enough to please its citizens yet strong enough to secure power. But in a world where former rulers have become new foes, an alien threat to humanity may turn old adversaries into uncertain allies.
General Artur Drakon knows three words describe someone who confides in a Syndicate CEO: Stupid. Betrayed. Dead. Despite his misgivings, he partnered with another former CEO to overthrow Syndic forces. Now, with an enigma fleet menacing their hard-earned independence, he can ill afford to trust heror lose her support.
President Gwen Iceni believes Midway is humanitys defense against the enigmas. Syndicate training taught her self-preservation in a crisis, yet shes determined to fight for the star systems fate
even if it means joining forces with Drakonand an officer of the hated Alliance.
Their plan places the Midway flotilla at great risk in hopes of greater reward: recruiting the personnel necessary to man warships against the enigmas. But before facing the alien advance, Drakon and Iceni must survive hidden dangers closer to home: all-too-human threats that could jeopardize Midways freedom
and their own lives.
*Night Owl Reviews
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Dreadnaught] delivers everything fans expect from Black Jack Geary and more.”Monsters & Critics “The story line is as always faster than the speed of light.”Alternative Worlds
“Campbell combines the best parts of military SF and grand space opera to launch a new adventure series.”
Publishers Weekly
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Praise for The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight
“A fascinating and vividly rendered character study, fully and expertly contextualized.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A true page-turner as Jack Campbell takes you from one cliff-hanger to the next before youve had time to readjust to the newest twist.”—My Bookish Ways
“Tarnished Knight is a winner, with the right mixture of action-based military science fiction and political space opera.”—The Guilded Earlobe
“As can be expected in a Jack Campbell novel, the military battle sequences are very well done, with the land-based action adding a new dimension…Fans of The Lost Fleet series will…enjoy this book.”—SFcrowsnest
“[An] imaginative science fiction novel…A chilling depiction of a society where one is always being spied upon.”—Night Owl Reviews
Synopsis
View our feature on Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught.
The New York Times bestselling series that delivers "edge-of- your-seat combat" (Elizabeth Moon, author of the Vatta's War series).
The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Fleet Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people-and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing.
Geary knows that members of the military high command and the government question his loyalty to the Alliance and fear his staging a coup-so he can't help but wonder if the newly christened First Fleet is being deliberately sent to the far side of space on a suicide mission.
Synopsis
The Alliance woke Captain John “Black Jack” Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now, Admiral Geary’s victory has earned him the adoration of the people—and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing…
The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens occupying the far side of Syndic space and determine how much of a threat they represent to the Alliance. And while the Syndic Worlds are no longer united, individually they may be more dangerous than ever before.
Geary knows that members of the military high command and the government question his loyalty to the Alliance and fear him staging a coup—so he can’t help but wonder if the fleet is being deliberately sent on a suicide mission…
About the Author
Jack Campbell” is the pen name of John G. Hemry, a retired naval officer who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis before serving with the surface fleet and in a variety of other assignments. He is the author of The Lost Fleet series as well as the Starks War series and the Paul Sinclair series. His short fiction appears frequently in Analog magazine. He lives with his indomitable wife and three children in Maryland.