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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) by Jack Campbell
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:45:10 -0500
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On 7/14/2025 11:16 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <1054jhv$3shvb$1@dont-email.me>,
> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>> "Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) by Jack Campbell
>>     https://www.amazon.com/Dauntless-Lost-Fleet-Book-1/dp/0441014186/
>>
>> Book number one 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 2006.  I have
>> purchased the five 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 Captain John “Black Jack” Geary may be a hundred years out of date but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.
>>
>> 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 (6,060 reviews)
>>
>> Lynn
>>
> 
> One of the many SF takes on Xenophon.  I think I've read all the Black Jack
> books (I skipped the spinoff series), but it seems like there hasn't been
> a new one for a few years.

The author states that he wrote all of the stories about Black Jack at 
his website:
    https://jack-campbell.com/index.html

Lynn