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The Lost Fleet continues its perilous journey home.

Badly damaged and low on supplies, the Alliance Fleet is raiding Syndic mines for raw materials-and Captain "Black Jack" Geary hopes they can continue to remain one step ahead of their enemies. But the Syndics are the least of Geary's worries when he learns of the existence of aliens with the power to annihilate the human race.

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"The kind of hero Hornblower fans will love!" -WILLIAM C. DIETZ Praise for The Lost Fleet series: "The most believable space battles I've ever seen anywhere." -DAVID SHERMAN "Good fun." -DON D'AMMASSA "Thoughtful and exciting...loaded with edge-of-your-seat combat." -ELIZABETH MOON

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"Jack Campbell" is the pseudonym for John G. Hemry, a retired Naval officer (and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis). As Jack Campbell, he writes The Lost Fleet series of military science fiction novels. He lives with his family in Maryland.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace (December 18, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0441015670
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0441015672
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.2 x 0.8 x 6.7 inches

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"Jack Campbell" is the pseudonym for John G. Hemry, a retired Naval officer (and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis). As Jack Campbell, he writes The Lost Fleet series of military science fiction novels, as well as the Beyond the Frontier continuation of The Lost Fleet, and The Lost Stars series (a spin-off of The Lost Fleet). He has also written the Stark's War series and the Sinclair/"JAG in space" series, and has written many shorter stories featuring space opera, fantasy, time travel, and alternate history. Many of these stories can be found in the three Jack Campbell ebook anthologies. He lives with his wife (the Indomitable S) and three children (two of whom are autistic) in Maryland.

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Wayne L.

A little bit cardboardy

Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2021

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A lot of work has gone into these books, and I want to like them, but they suffer from a few flaws that make them overall just middling. One flaw is the characters - they are like cardboard cutouts. “Co-President Rione,” for example, comes off like a robot. There isn’t even a scintilla of a physics description of her or Geary himself in the books. It’s impossible to visualize them, and neither of them comes off as remotely realistic or likeable.

Then there is the melodrama. My god, the amount of emoting and agonizing and arguing these people do. And everything seems incredibly artificial. The sheer lack of professionalism in a supposed military force, the backbiting and arguing, it seems like a bunch of teenagers running this fleet. And it gets really tiring to hear Geary and Rione blabbing about their terror of him becoming “Black Jack Geary.” And the tolerance for open mutiny and insubordination is ridiculous.

Finally, there is the genius paradox - the difficulty of an author who is not a genius writing about a character who is. Geary doesn’t seem particularly intelligent, and it’s best not to try to visualize the space battles and just acknowledge “okay, this is a battle he’s supposed to win brilliantly, this is one where he’ll take a lot of losses,” etc. it all feels wooden and ends up feeling like a slog.

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Book 3 in a military SF series with excellent space battles and a likable hero.

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2019

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This is the third book in the Lost Fleet military science fiction series. If you like military SF with excellent space battles and brave, unambiguously ethical protagonists, then I highly recommend this series (though you should begin with book one: Dauntless). The space battles are indeed excellent. The hero is sympathetic and unquestionably good. The science fiction content is mostly strong, both the space battles and the backdrop they take place against, with hints of further things brewing in the background as the series progresses. I note that the plot feels contrived to force our hero into difficult situations, and that the factions among his officers lack much nuance. But right now I am in the mood for a hero I can root for in an uncomplicated way -- plus I am loving the space battles -- so I shall be proceeding straight to book four.

About my reviews: I try to review every book I read, including those that I don't end up enjoying. The reviews are not scholarly, but just indicate my reaction as a reader, reading being my addiction. I am miserly with 5-star reviews; 4 stars means I liked a book very much; 3 stars means I liked it; 2 stars means I didn't like it (though often the 2-star books are very popular with other readers and/or are by authors whose other work I've loved).

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Christopher W

Courage, being brave during a difficult situation or position.

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The Alliance fleet has won some decisive battles that has definitely cut into the Syndicate Worlds numerical advantage after the trap laid for the Alliance in their home world star system. Captain Geary has lead the fleet in an exemplary manner that has reduced the damage and losses to his own fleet, while producing significant losses to the enemy forces. A combination of knowledge, skill, and luck has enabled these results. He's had extremely good fortune, but what will happen when his luck is in short supply ? Because surely it's not going to continue forever as he tries to get his feet home. He's going to need some help and have to be Courageous.

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Continues to be some of the finest Military Science Fiction ever written

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2014

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Courageous (Book #3) picks up right where Fearless (Book #2) leaves off in the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell. The fleet is still under the command of Captain John "Black Jack" Geary, and they are still trying to head for home. The disasterous results of the mutiny are fully felt in this book, and the author's long game plan is slowly revealed in this book, with hints of a hidden alien species playing both sides of the war for their own interests.

Geary's old fashioned and non-insane ways of doing things continue to be proven right, and amidst the personnel struggles he has to deal with, a new threat starts to make itself known to him, and with it, suspicions of dangerous powers that could change the face of galaxy for both sides of the war.

The book is a fast paced, nail-biting thriller that includes plenty of the best the military tradition has to offer in the way of: duty, honor, valor and brotherhood. The book features space battles, revenge, some romance, and diplomacy done the Marine-way. The story is told in the best traditions of Star Trek and Star Wars, and fans of those series should feel right at home here. The story has no graphic violence, and very little regular violence. I can only start reading one of these books on a Friday night or Saturday, because I WILL sit there and read the whole thing cover to cover, until I am done -- regardless of if I have to go into work tomorrow or not. Not many authors can cause me to show up for work on 2 hours of sleep, but Jack Campbell can.

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Sex & Nudity: [2/5] there are brief sex/nudity scenes in the book with minimal detail -- "and she shared his bed" sort of stuff. Characters also discuss sexual relationships in the book from time to time, but not in detail.

Violence & Gore: [1/5] fairly minimal, sometimes the marines are sent out, and we get some general descriptions, but almost all of the story takes place aboard the space ships, so any violence is via naval space battles, which do result in the deaths of people, but they are never described, so feel very abstract.

Profanity: [1/5] minimal, not nearly as much or as often as you might expect from a military science fiction story.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: [1/5] minimal. I don't recall and smoking or drug use, and alcohol use is mainly limited to occasional drinks or reference to drinks, never characters getting drunk or glorifying it.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: [2/5] the ships and crew are in mortal danger pretty much all of the time while behind enemy lines, and all of the space battles involve the threat of destruction for everyone in the battle.

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Paul Tapner

the fleet flies on

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2008

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third in a series of science fiction novels about the lost fleet. There's an interstellar war on between two human groupings of worlds, the alliance and the syndic. the alliance space fleet are trapped behind enemy lines, and only their chance discovery of captain geary, an alliance hero of years before who was stuck in suspended animation for ages till the fleet found him, could save the day.

Can geary get the fleet home? and can he live up to the legend he's become in the meantime?

all these books run for three hundred pages. and whilst not being great literature are quite decent prose and characterisation wise.

For the first hundred pages this looked like having mid book in series syndrome, in that not much happens and things continue much as before.

However the remaining two hundred pages were really rather entertaining, as the space battles carry on in earnest, and the alliance fleet really struggle to survive. this was entertaining and engrossing reading, and the book ends on a cliffhanger that was really quite rousing and makes me desperate to know what will happen next.

I'll be back for more. the aliens promised on the back of the book are only hinted at late on. Doubtless we'll see more of them in future volumes

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2019

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What a way to leave a story
This starship captain fleet leader has got to be british
No way th e yanks have got the gonads
We are english ,scottish ,welsh ,irish
We can do what we set out to do
We are human the greatest species in the universe 👿

Just Jules

Hot damn! Could this series get any more exciting.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2019

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There is just so much going on. Internal politics, a determined and organised Syndic fleet hungry for Alliance blood, new emerging threats from the edge of Syndic space. There are spectacular wins and devastating losses, ugly surprises and next to no nice ones. Still, Captain Geary is keeping faith with his ancestors and his pledge to do all that he can to see the fleet back home to Alliance space. It just may take him a bit longer to do it than he hoped.

Mr. Peter Harding

Please stop telling me about the s***ing lights in hyperspace!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2013

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I like this series of books a lot, great characters and a good plot that's original enough to keep me wondering what's going to happen next or how the characters are going to get out of the fix they're in.

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These books and Mr Campbell have one great failing in my eyes, and that's the constant repetition of certain stock phrases and descriptions. These can be overcome for the most part with just a little gentle cursing and swearing while skipping to the next paragraph, but by the time i got to third book it had all just got too much and i very nearly abandoned the entire series. Instead after a week away from being told again and again about the sodding lights in hyperspace and what people thought they represented, i picked these books up again and ploughed on.

Three more books in and i'm glad i persisted, because the story does continue to develop nicely, and i have thoroughly enjoyed them.. . And it might be my imagination but it does seem like the repetition of those stock phrases is getting a bit less, a tiny, tiny bit less.

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A. G. Williams

Great read. Great character and plot development

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2021

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Bought them all on paperback, and have kept them in the bookshelf.

In a world of digital books, it's rare to consume limited shelf space for books. I bought all of the books and recommended them to my father in law

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