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The first novel in the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet series!

The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century—and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief....

Captain John “Black Jack” Geary’s exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic “last stand” in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance Fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics.

Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty. And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance’s one chance to win the war. But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic “Black Jack” legend....

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“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 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Fleet series and The Lost Stars series, as well as the Stark’s War, Paul Sinclair, and Pillars of Reality series. He lives with his indomitable wife and three children in Maryland.

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“Captain Geary, I wouldn’t blame you for wondering if you’d have been better off if we hadn’t found you. ‘Black Jack’ Geary, back from the dead to accompany the Alliance Fleet to its greatest victory.” Bloch closed his eyes for a moment. “Now I need to leave the fleet in the hands of someone I can trust.”
Geary grimaced, wanting to yell at Bloch, tell the admiral that the man he wanted to leave in charge of the fleet wasn’t the man actually standing here, that such a person had never existed.
He finally just nodded slowly. “Aye, aye, sir.”
“We’re trapped. This fleet is the Alliance’s last hope.” Bloch leaned close, speaking more softly. “Dauntless has the key onboard. Do you understand? This ship must get home. Somehow. The hypernet key must get back to the Alliance. If we can do that there’ll still be a chance.”
It wasn’t like Geary would be in charge forever. Bloch would negotiate with the Syndics, then return and be back in command. Geary would never have to learn any details about some “key” on the Dauntless that somehow related to a method of traveling between the stars, which was much more rapid than even the system-jump faster-than-light transportation used in Geary’s time.
“Yes, sir . . . ” --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000OZ0NXU
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace; Reissue edition (June 27, 2006)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 27, 2006
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1925 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
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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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Christopher W

Life, given back to a dead man.

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2022

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Imagine that you were in an unexpected battle against overwhelming odds and stayed behind on your ship fighting so everyone else could escape to safety. After doing so, your ship is so badly damaged that you get in a life pod and get cryogenically frozen and are presumed dead and lost to the stars. You are used as an example for your military for courage, strength, fortitude, and become a legendary hero for a war that began with that historic battle. In a bold move your military forms a huge fleet to fight a final decisive battle in the heart of enemy territory. On the way to that location over a 100 years later that fleet finds your life pod and thaws you out not long before the power sustaining that pod is about to run out. The legendary hero found right before the biggest and most important battle of that long war. A few weeks later you discover it was a trap, the fleet admiral is about to negotiate a surrender and withdrawal, and places you in charge of the fleet and tasks you with getting it home in case anything bad should befall the admiral. The admiral and leadership negotiation team are then brutally murdered and you find yourself in command , weeks after a 100 plus year frozen slumber. What would you do ? If you're Blackjack Geary, your duty, follow orders, and do your best or die trying, hopefully, without the dying part.

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Great Sci-Fi series to keep your attention.

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2019

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This is actually the 2nd time I have read this book in the series. I finished the series when it first came out, and have my grandsons and son in law reading it now. I decided to re-read the entire series because it brings me back to a point in my life that I truly enjoyed reading and how it made me feel. The series is very well written and is hard to put down, once engaged. the concepts are well described and are easy to follow as they are getting more and more complex. In the end you will have a firm grasp of some very complex situations. This does not mean that the books are predictable like most books I read. The plots focus on concepts that can help you learn to apply to everyday life situations. I love the Captain's internal Dialogue, which is usually what I am thinking, and how he expresses himself to others. It is a great series of books and I have read most of the author's books. I highly recommend them for younger readers, or anyone who likes Sci-Fi.

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John Campbell (aka John Hemry) is easily one of my favorite authors

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2018

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John Campbell (aka John Hemry) is easily one of my favorite authors. I first discovered him in reading Dauntless. Since then, I've read almost every book he's published as John Campbell. The "Lost Fleet" Series a personal all time: I've probably read it through six times over the years. I've similarly read the "Pillars of Reality" series through three or four times. John has a rare gift in writing good sequels: the "Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontiers" series is also really worth reading, and so is this "Legacy of Dragons series." I was reluctant to start the "Legacy of Dragons": I loved the original set of books so much that I worried about John's ability to write another series in the same world. I should have had more faith in the writer of "Beyond the Frontiers".

I'm not sure what I love so much about John's books. It must have a lot to do with his characters: I really like them. They are true heroes, but not so heroic or amazing that you can't believe in them. They still have a sense of humility and humor. His worlds are highly consistent and interesting. And he has a respect for and a belief that life is more than just atoms in random motion, without being pushy or really preachy about it.

Thank you John. I've greatly loved the worlds you've made, and I will continue to read and re-read your work. I've greatly enjoyed it.

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Michael L. Barnes

Hard scifi space fleet action

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2021

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I never considered the role sensor types play on space combat until I read this novel. If you don't have sensors capable of operating at faster than light speed to get you data. All you have are your cameras and this book makes it painfully clear the timing you need to perfect to be effective when fighting in such an environment. The novel quickly gets into the action and details how combat with such systems is difficult for inexperienced commanders. Limiting your battle formations. But the author does a lot of explaining how proper fleet combat is done and weaves an entertaining story at the same time involving political and even religious intrigue. Worth the read and time I invested in this series so far.

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Realistic Sci-Fi, well worth the read!

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2017

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I've heard recommendations about this series for some time now amongst different groups I am part of online. I figured why not, let me check out book one and see if I like it too.

I'm glad I did!

This book is one of the few books thus far that covers realistic physics-based combat in space, specifically accounting for the fast distances that ships would necessarily have to travel and fight in. It's fascinating and well worth the read. The characters themselves are decently written, and a few surprises await the reader.

WELL worth the read! Excuse me, I'm on my way to get the next one in the series. :)

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Pat Hauldren

A Must Read SF

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2019

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I stumbled onto this author by accident. Boy am I glad I did! Think Hornblower in space with a big dash of The Expanse, The Last Ship, and Battlestar Galactica, with a pinch of Tom Clancy, and you've got The Lost Fleet. I'm not into detailed military maneuvers, weaponry, etc. Like we might find in Clancy's submarines or Lee Child's weaponry knowledge. We get the awesome space adventure of The Expanse and Battlestar, with characters we fall in live with, and ones we loathe. We get the loner character, Geary as our "Hornblower," who knows what he knows, often from his gut or from studying history, that flies in the face of current military tactics and goals. And the stakes get bigger and bigger as the series advances. This is a must read for any SF readerm

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Black Jack Wakes!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 7, 2018

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Hard 'Space Opera' which should have Honor Harrington looking to her laurels. Campbell is a retired Navy officer and oh, how it shows!
His charaters are real people and they are stuck in a no-hope situation, for which there is a solution, but those under Geary's command have long ago forgotten how to apply it, after years and years of endless war.
Commander 'Black Jack' Geary was escorting some Alliance merchant ships through a disputed corridor when they were attacked without warning by Syndicated Worlds warships. Geary's ships beat the Syndics off. but in the process, his ship was all but destroyed. Geary saw his surviving crew off the ship before taking the least available, but damaged, survival pod .... and there he stayed for the next hundred years in cryogenic suspension, till a fleet of Alliance warships came tghrough on a mission to destroy the Syndic Fleet stationed off the Syndic homeworld. As the saying goes, plans don't survive the first encounter with the enemy and in this case, things go seriously awry when it becomes obvious that the Alliance fleet has walked into a trap. Expecting to be away only a short while, the Fleet Admiral passed command to Geary, as the most senior, but non-essential officer. (he was promoted 'postumously' but his senority still predates anybody else's by nearly a century), When the Admiral is apparently executed by the Syndics it is up to Geary to get the Fleet home, with 'Dauntless' as his flagship.

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A. Claughton

Decently written against the odds military sci-fi

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2022

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A pretty good read which is decently written, with a reasonably by the numbers, against the odds, military space opera. Jack Campbell has reasonably accuratish space warfare, interesting characters and does keep the interest up. That said, there aren't really any huge surprises, and its your normal young officer put in charge of a bad situation and excelling.

Its a good read, entertaining, but nothing really wows you. And the full story arc is across 4-5 books so you really are just reading part 1 of a longer story. So 4 stars, not 5.

Adrian Hannam

Simply the best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2022

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This book and the series that follows was responsible for opening up a completely new genre to my reading. Since reading this series I have read many space operas and truly found my reading niche. That is all down to Jack Campbell. If you haven't read The Lost Fleet... Do yourself a favour and read it as soon as you can. For me this is the third time.

jacw2000

Blast from the Past

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2015

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First in a series so a good place to start if you like this stuff - military sci-fi with a naval emphasis - and I do. Captain Black Jack Geary was lost in action against the Syndics a hundred years ago and has become a legendary hero of the Alliance worlds. So when the Alliance fleet retrieves his body from a suspended animation survival capsule, he is senior captain by a long way.

Both navies have been fighting for all of that hundred years and are essentially in a stalemate. Tactics on both sides amount to scream and charge, and in general die. Esprit de Corps is surprisingly high - but training, tactics and strategy are low.

Geary remembers a time before the war when fleets practised manoeuvres and won by skill rather than brute force. Under his leadership the fleet does rather better than the performance common in recent years. And his task is to return to the Alliance worlds with his fleet intact - by cunning and skill he looks like he might achieve this, possibly even in Book 2...

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Black Jack's My Guilty Pleasure.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2011

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John `Black Jack' Geary - rather like Adam Adamant in the cult 60s TV series, and rather less like Sleeping Beauty - has been asleep for a hundred years. In this case Jack was floating about in space in an escape pod following a space-battle against the Syndics. Now rescued, Jack finds himself in the uncomfortable position of being a legend and an example to those space-navy personnel who have lost much of the discipline of military life, due mainly to the fact that the space-navy has lost much of its personnel after a hundred years of war.
Following the assassination of the Admiral of the Fleet by the evil Syndics, Jack is forced to take command and lead the fleet back home, if only to hand over the secret of the hypernet key (a McGuffin which may mean the difference between winning the war and losing it).
Is it Science Fiction? Well, to be fair, Campbell has a half-hearted poke, rather than a stab at relativistic effects and hyperspatial jumps. There are `Doc' Smith-esque weapons installed on the ship which can destroy entire planets if necessary, but on the whole Campbell tiptoes quietly around the science, hoping that we won't notice.
Having said that, he makes a very decent fist of the space battles and the problems inherent in dealing with communication, time-delay and trying to find out what the enemy fleet is doing when both groups are travelling at fractions of light speed and the width of a solar system apart.
Normally, so I believe, Campbell writes standard war-fiction under the name of John G Hemry, and so things begin to make sense.
Substitute the space-ships for sea ships, the Syndics for Nazis or Japanese, and the planets for islands, and you'd have a passable WWII drama. Add the secret that might win the war for decent English/American democracy and you get your fleet into a race against time to get the secret back home.
Astoundingly, despite the rather cardboard characters and the Boys Own plot, it's a very readable book. Granted, it's not going to win the Booker Prize or (God Forbid) The Hugo Award, but it's a novel that doesn't pretend to be anything more than it is. Pulp Fiction.
Be warned though. There's another five novels in the series. I suspect the fleet may be lost for some considerable time. Dependent on your point of view this will be either marvellous news, or not. I have to say I'm kind of looking forward to it.

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