On 7/25/25 14:37, Lynn McGuire wrote:

"Fearless (The Lost Fleet, Book 2)" by Jack Campbell
   https://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Lost-Fleet-Book-2/dp/0441014763/

Book number two of a six book military science fiction series.  Plus
several sequel series consisting of fourteen books total.  I read the
well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace in 2007.  I have
purchased the four sequel books in this series and plan to read them soon.

I did not know John G. Hemry was the real name for Jack Campbell as I purchased the Stark series quite a while back and enjoyed it also.

The Alliance sent a war fleet into the Syndic home star system via the
new FTL network to defeat the Syndics once and for all.  However, the Syndics knew that they were coming and destroyed many of the Alliance
space warships.  Now the Alliance warships need to leave or be destroyed
one by one.

The Alliance admiral left Captain John “Black Jack” Geary in charge of the Alliance fleet before he and his staff were murdered by the Syndics
in the negotiations.  Captain John “Black Jack” Geary was found by the Alliance fleet on their way to Syndic space, in stasis in an old
emergency pod.  A hundred year old emergency pod.  Captain John “Black Jack” Geary may be a hundred years out of date but some things like
tactics of war spaceship fleets never go away.

Captain Geary is leading his fleet of warships and supply ships through
old wormholes, trying to anticipate Syndic attacks and gather raw
materials and feed his crews.  But a group of the warships mutiny after rescuing an Alliance POW camp and head off into Syndic space, trying to
get directly home.

The author has a website at:
   https://jack-campbell.com/

My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.4 out of 5 stars (4,420 reviews)

Lynn

Great old-fashioned Space Opera that Doc Smith would be proud of.

bliss

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