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Valiant (The Lost Fleet, Book 4) Mass Market Paperback – June 24, 2008

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Legendary war hero Captain “Black Jack” Geary fights to stay ahead of his enemies in the fourth novel in Jack Campbell’s New York Times bestselling military science fiction series.

Deep within Syndicate World space, the Alliance fleet continues its dangerous journey home under the command of Captain John “Black Jack” Geary—revived after a century spent in suspended animation. Geary’s victories over the enemy have earned both the respect—and the envy—of his fellow officers...

Geary has made many risky decisions as commander of the Alliance fleet, but ordering them back to the Lakota Star System where the Syndics nearly destroyed them has his officers questioning his sanity. It’s a desperate gamble that may buy the fleet just enough time to prepare for the Syndics’ inevitable return.

Even as he struggles to give the fleet a fighting chance at survival, Geary faces dissent from within. An unknown number of officers want a change of command, but Geary knows that the Alliance fleet must stand together, or else the Syndic forces will tear them apart...

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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; First Edition (June 24, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0441016197
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0441016198
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 0.84 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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Mary Soon LeeTop Contributor: Fantasy Books

I love the space battles and keep enthusiastically rooting for the hero.

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2019

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This is the fourth book in the Lost Fleet military science fiction series. If you're looking for a military SF series with excellent space battles and an unambiguously good hero, then I highly recommend this series. (Read them in order, starting with book one: Dauntless.) I have certain reservations, but none of them stopped me from enjoying these books considerably.

Major spoilers ahead.... My reservations are as follows. Firstly, the plot feels contrived to force the hero into a difficult position. (Yes, story plots are all contrived, but this one feels that way as I read it.) Secondly, both the hero and chief villains are painted in black and white, rather than shades of gray. Thirdly, the handling of the hero's romantic relationships underwhelms me. Despite these reservations, I like the hero sufficiently to enthusiastically root for him. I like the bleak depiction of the impact of a century-long war on those fighting it. I like the mysterious alien threat. And, most of all, I love the space battles. I've been gobbling these books up at high speed and intend to keep doing so until I run out of books.

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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Very satisfying Military Science Fiction

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Valiant (Book #4) picks up right where Courageous (Book #3) 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. Things are getting serious now. Geary has decided to jump right back to Lakota, the location of their last fatal encounter with the Syndics where they were ambushed by Syndics who were just as surprised to see them as Geary's fleet was. The return to Lakota strategy is basically to go on a surprise offensive, while also giving his ships more time in jump space for repairs.

From this point on for the rest of the series, the actions Geary has been taking in the series start to pay off. Syndics are listening to him, and even reluctant officers under his command begin to believe in what Geary has to say. Of course, there are still some die-hards who will stop at literally NOTHING to stop Geary from ruining the way they think the war should be governed.

The Lost Fleet series is very entertaining, very realistic Military Science Fiction told in an epic space navy/space opera sort of way. There are huge space battles, Marine actions, love and hate, revenge and loyalty, duty and valor. The books ring with the power of those words, and even though the writing can get corny at times (sometimes SUPER corny) I never want to stop reading.

5 stars.
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Sex & Nudity: [1/5] sex is discussed in the book but not described, and it is all past-tense.

Violence & Gore: [1/5] fairly minimal-- 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. No smoking or drug use, and only minor alcohol use.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: [2/5] the ships and crew are in mortal danger pretty much all of the time while behind enemy lines but nothing like a character being chased down a dark hallway followed by a homicidal maniac.

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Mr. Phil J. Jarvis

More of the same. It's beginning to feel a lot like deja vu in every chapter.

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2013

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More of the same. It's beginning to feel a lot like deja vu in every chapter.
The premise for this whole series is great, it really is. The attention to detail the author has put in really makes you think this is how space operations will be in the future. The problem I am finding with this series (and was the same with another series by another author, set in near the same time frame) is that they assume they have to keep reminded the reader of the main plot line or of key facts that happened in earlier book. If this is to help people who haven't bothered to read the earliler books in the series - then please stop. They should want to read the series from beginning. But for the reader that is on the journey, this constant repeat of information becomes very irritating, and I find myself groaning when I see it happening again. Don't get me wrong, this is a great story but I have to believe that if a screen writer were to have to make this series into a film, they wouldn't need 5 films to do it - maybe 2. And that is really how I wish this had been written, maybe as 3 novels.

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Paul Tapner

the enemy within

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 30, 2008

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for the uninitiated: this is a series of science fiction novels telling the ongoing story of the lost fleet, a group of spaceships in a future war between two human groups called the alliance and the syndic. the fleet comes from the former, and they got lost behind enemy lines and would have been doomed had they not found john geary. the legendary black jack, who fought in a battle at the start of the war one hundred years previously and was stuck in suspended animation ever since. geary is now in command, struggling to deal with the myth that has built up around him in the meantime, and trying to get the fleet back home. These books are not great literature by a long way, but they're capably written and feature good space battles.

you could probably pick the story up here, but to get the most out of the series go back to the first volume and read them in order.

for those who have been following this series:

this one like all of them runs roughly 286 pages, and picks up where the previous book in the series left off. like that one, it also takes about a hundred pages to really get going. the first hundred pages are taken up with more space battles, which are well described but not the most exciting ones so far.

after this, though, the book does get going. geary this time faces the threat of his enemies inside the fleet taking action. he has to try and find them, and make a few more tough decisions along with it.

subplots do move on a bit here. the romantic love triangle he's been in gets a bit of resolution. the aliens mentioned in book three don't appear but we learn a little more about them. and an interesting subplot about the course of the war begins. it will be interesting to see how it develops.

not quite the best in the series, but enough to make me want to know what will happen next

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Jacob

Would you like to spend book after book reading about a character ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2017

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I really don't get the hype of this series. Would you like to spend book after book reading about a character being hero worshiped, every other protagonist being shallow and badly written?

Some interesting descriptions of space battles, and observations about war etc...but this is not a 'great' series. I bought the first four books to read on holiday as a good page turner, which is what I think they're good for: an average space-opera to fill the time.

Do yourself a favor: if you want futuristic suspense/politics/drama in space read Peter F Hamiltons commonwealth saga or anything sci-fi by Ian M Banks

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Quality Space Warfare

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2008

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I normally don't read this kind of starship trooper stuff but after the first book bought at an airport I too am hooked. Campbell writes with authority as though he has personal experience of space warfare and has obviously done a lot of research of the factors involved. He describes tactics and battles in an approachable way but I bet if you plotted it all out in three dimensions, it would check out. His characters are also well fleshed out within the limits of the scanerio and the power politics and machinations of the envious inept against a competent man will strike a chord with any adult. His hero is also believable, filled with self-doubt and trying to balance all the factors for the best outcome. Will he save the fleet? Will he win the war? Will he get the right woman? Will he discover the secret of the myesterious aliens? Of course he will but don't miss any of the exciting episodes on the way.

roguetrooper

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2019

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The final day of the trip back draws close and the stakes are too high for all to survive but steddy leadership and management of tactical information about your enemy will win the day along with the whother dares wins spirit needed by a cold commander

Just Jules

The plot thickens

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2019

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Tangled webs are starting to unravel as more plots are uncovered and secrets exposed. Enemies are getting desperate and more ruthless in their missions to stop Black Jack Geary from getting the fleet back to Alliance space. How low will they stoop? And what can Captain Geary do to put an end to their machinations?

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