Jack Campbell returns to the world of the New York Times best-selling
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.
