Guardian (Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier Series #3)

by Jack Campbell

Overview

Admiral Geary’s First Fleet of the Alliance has survived the journey deep into unexplored interstellar space, a voyage that led to the discovery of new alien species, including a new enemy and a possible ally. Now Geary’s mission is to ensure the safety of the Midway Star System, which has revolted against the Syndicate Worlds empire—an empire that is on the brink of collapse.
 
To complicate matters further, Geary also needs to return safely to Alliance space not only with representatives of the Dancers, an alien species, but also with Invincible, a captured warship that could possibly be the most valuable object in human history. Despite the peace treaty that Geary must adhere to at all costs, the Syndicate Worlds regime threatens to make the fleet’s journey back grueling and perilous.
 
And even if Geary escorts Invincible and the Dancers’ representatives home unharmed, the Syndics’ attempts to spread dissent and political unrest may have already sown the seeds of the Alliance’s destruction...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425260517
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/29/2014
Series:	Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier Series , #3
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	85,250
Product dimensions:	4.17(w) x 6.75(h) x 1.08(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

“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 (Steadfast, Invincible, Dreadnaught) as well as The Lost Stars series (Perilous Shield, Tarnished Knight) the Stark’s War series (Stark's Command, Stark's Crusade), and the Paul Sinclair series (A Just Determination, Burden of Proof). His short fiction appears frequently in Analog magazine. He lives with his indomitable wife and three children in Maryland.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier novels
Invincible

“Absorbing…Neither series addicts nor newcomers will be disappointed.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Engaging entertainment.”—SFRevu
Dreadnaught

“Campbell combines the best parts of military SF and grand space opera to launch a new adventure series…Geary’s Star Trek–like mission of exploration sets the fleet up for plenty of exciting discoveries and escapades.”—Publishers Weekly

“The story line is, as always, faster than the speed of light…Jack Campbell creates a terrific, unexpected spin to his great outer-space saga.”—Alternative Worlds

Editorial Reviews

Praise for The Lost Fleet novels
 
“Military science fiction at its best.”—Catherine Asaro, Nebula Award–winning author of Carnelians
 
“It’s almost nonstop action and conflict.”—SF Site

“A series of fast-paced adventure.”—SFRevu

“Campbell combines the best parts of military SF and grand space opera…Geary’s Star Trek–like mission of exploration sets the fleet up for plenty of exciting discoveries and escapades.”—Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

Narrator Christian Rummel is so much better than this source material; he elevates the book greatly. The story is a classic space opera about an admiral taking a fleet of starships home, finding new enemies, discovering alien artifacts, having a light romance, all while fighting battles on video screens at light-year distances. If you’ve read any science fiction, you know what’s coming, but Rummel’s performance is so entertaining that he makes listeners want to hear how he’ll perform the story. He populates the international starfleet military with a multitude of accents. While his female characters tend to sound alike, his men growl and swagger through space with brio. G.D. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

FEBRUARY 2014 - AudioFile

Continuing the deep-space adventures of Adm. John "Black Jack" Geary and company (Invincible, 2012, etc.). Having fought off the alien Kicks and captured one of their colossal battleships, renamed Invincible, and acquiring allies in the form of the alien Dancers, Geary is ready to return with his battered fleet to the Alliance home worlds. But first they must pass through the Midway star system, where ex-CEOs Iceni and Drakon have defeated the remnants of the Syndic loyalists. Unfortunately, it appears that the Syndics have invented a method of switching off the hyperspace gates necessary for rapid transit, necessitating a tiresome series of jumps through star systems where the Syndic Empire still clings to power. While theoretically the Alliance is no longer at war with the Empire, the latter is keen to do everything in its power to annoy, harass, threaten and otherwise disrupt Geary's passage. The Syndics' secondary objective is to capture or destroy Invincible which, though packed with potentially invaluable alien technology, is presently an inert hulk requiring most of Geary's own battleships to tow it. The vast ship is also haunted by ghosts that, while intangible, are psychically all too real. Once again, the visceral action comes fast and furious as the fleet attempts to evade or disrupt the traps the Syndics have laid. Geary proves a model commander, prone to doubts and moments of weakness, refreshingly willing to be advised by his subordinates, especially his wife, Tanya Desjani, who captains his flagship, and Emissary Victoria Rione, whose sharp political skills will prove invaluable. Well up to the high standards established by this intriguing series.

Kirkus Reviews