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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: "Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) by Jack Campbell
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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Captain John “Black Jack” Geary may be a hundred years out of date but 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.
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