Jack Campbell returns to the world of the New York
Times bestselling Lost Fleet novels with a new
action-packed military science fiction series that explores
the founding of the Alliance . . . and the men and women who
fought to create it.
Earth is no longer the center of the universe.
After the invention of the faster-than-light jump drive,
humanity is rapidly establishing new colonies. But the vast
distances of space mean that the old order of protection and
interstellar law offered by Earth has ceased to exist.
When a nearby world attacks, the new colony of Glenlyon
turns to Robert Geary, a young former junior fleet officer,
and Mele Darcy, a onetime enlisted Marine. With nothing but
improvised weapons and a few volunteers, Geary and Darcy
must face down warships and armored soldiers—or die trying.
As battles rage and pirates take an increasing toll
throughout the colonies, the only hope for lasting peace
lies with Carmen Ochoa, a “Red” from the anarchic world of
Mars, and Lochan Nakamura, a failed politician. They have a
plan: to lay the groundwork for mutual defense that could
someday grow into an alliance. But if their efforts don’t
succeed, the growing power of aggressor worlds could turn
regions of space founded on freedom into battlefields
between the first interstellar empires...
the first interstellar empires...