Captain John "Black Jack" Geary races to save a group of Alliance POWs
from certain death in this gripping novel in New York Times
bestselling author Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet series.
Alliance prisoners of war are being held at a labor camp in the Heradao
star system, which also happens to be the location of the majority of
the surviving Syndic warships. Determined not to leave any of his people
behind, "Black Jack" Geary orders the fleet to strike hard and fast to
rescue the POWs with minimal Alliance losses.
The raid is successful, but victory is short-lived. Geary discovers that
the Syndics plan to ambush the fleet with their powerful reserve
flotilla in an attempt to annihilate it once and for all--but he doesn't
know where the enemy is located. And as Geary has the fleet jump from
one star system to the next, hoping to avoid the inevitable
confrontation, saboteurs contribute to the chaos...