Courageous (The Lost Fleet, 3)

The Alliance has been fighting a losing battle against the Syndicate Worlds for over a century. Now, Captain John âBlack Jackâ Geary, who returned to the fleet after a hundred-year suspended animation, must keep the Alliance one step ahead of its merciless foe⦠After a series of deadly engagements, the Alliance fleet is severely damaged and its arsenal is running low. Forced to halt in the Baldur Star System to raid the Syndic mines for raw materials, Geary is anxious to get moving again. But what should the fleetâs next move be? The Syndics are starting to catch on to Gearyâs tactics, and as the Alliance ships jump from system to system, itâs getting harder to keep one step ahead. Whatâs more, Geary has started to piece fragments of intelligence together into a highly disturbing picture: The Syndics have been keeping the existence of another potential player in the war a secret â and this unknown power may have the means to annihilate the human race⦠âJack Campbell has written the most believable space battles Iâve ever seen anywhere.â - David Sherman, coauthor of the Starfist series