Available:*
Library | Call Number | Status |
---|---|---|
Searching... Silver Falls Library | SF CAMPBELL | Searching... Unknown |
Searching... Stayton Public Library | SF CAMPBELL, Jack | Searching... Unknown |
Bound With These Titles
On Order
Summary
Summary
A thrilling spin-off from Jack Campbell's 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 her--or lose her support.
President Gwen Iceni believes Midway is humanity's defense against the enigmas. Syndicate training taught her self-preservation in a crisis, yet she's determined to fight for the star system's fate…even if it means joining forces with Drakon--and 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 Midway's freedom…and their own lives.
* Night Owl Reviews
Author Notes
"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 Stark's 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.
Reviews (1)
Kirkus Review
Second of the spinoff series (The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight, 2012) featuring the struggle of two former CEOs, Gen. Artur Drakon and President Gwen Iceni, to bring the newly independent crossroads Midway system out from under the shadow of the brutal Syndicate. It won't be easy, though. As this one opens, a powerful Syndicate flotilla threatens Midway, and although Drakon's ground forces are strong and well-organized, neither they nor Iceni's pitiful handful of warships is capable of defeating it. Worse, a huge fleet of alien enigmas shows up, against which Midway is helpless. Fortunately, right behind the enigmas comes legendary Alliance Admiral "Black Jack" Geary--series regulars will rejoice--with a supercolossal battleship captured from the alien Kicks in tow and accompanied by friendly alien Dancers. Black Jack, despite his war-weary crews and battered ships, is more than capable of kicking both enigma and Syndicate butt; however, after the long and bloody Syndicate-Alliance war, trusting the Alliance goes against the grain. But Drakon and Iceni's problems run much deeper. As former CEOs, they do not and cannot afford to trust one another too much. Neither has much of an idea of what true democracy entails. Their chief subordinates, Drakon's Malin and Morgan--they loathe one another--and Iceni's eerie bodyguard, Togo, may or may not decide to act independently. And somebody, perhaps several somebodies, is plotting to assassinate Drakon and Iceni in such a way as to make it seem as if the other party were responsible. Again, Campbell expertly cranks up the military, political and sexual tension, although the intensity wanes when the focus drifts away from the main characters. The author is dragging things out a bit but not to the point where readers will begin to peel away.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.