Navy officer he certainly adds elements of gritty realism to the novel. It is light, military Science Fiction and with Campbell being a retired U.S. He spent the next hundred years in a deep freeze hibernation, only to be recovered by an Alliance fleet on its way to deliver a fatal blow to the Syndic home world.īut things to not go to plan for the Alliance and Geary finds himself thrust back into the fight, placed in command of a damaged, ill-trained fleet and set the task of getting them home.Ĭampbell’s style is very readable, sharp and to the point, it suits the story he is trying to tell and compliments the no-nonsense hero he has created in ‘Black Jack’ Geary. At the very beginning of the war Geary fought a valiant last stand, sacrificing his star ship and what many believed his life to save the rest of the Alliance fleet from a Syndic attack, but Geary survived. The story focuses on Captain ‘Black Jack’ Geary, a hero of the Alliance, a legend who was thought to be dead.
What is clear is that neither side is winning, and that the price being paid is not going to be sustainable for much longer.ĭauntless is the first book of a six novel series by Jack Campbell. For a hundred years two human civilizations, the Syndics and the Alliance, have been locked in a brutal and grinding war, the conflict has raged for so long that no one can remember why the war is being fought in the first place.
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