Mere hours later after the admiral is executed, he finds himself in command over 200 ships that have been badly beaten and are cut off from retreat. The battle turns out to be a trap and as the leaders of the fleet board a shuttle to negotiate surrender, the fleet commander, Admiral Bloch calls on Geary to lead the fleet if anything should happen to him. Geary, assuming that the old laws of war still apply and that nothing ill would happen to his leaders, accepts. Still feeling weak from being frozen for 100 years, Geary arrives at what is supposed to be a decisive battle for the Alliance against the Syndicate. His last actions in that battle led to his immortalization as a hero of the Alliance people and fleet, which by the time of the book has become blown out of proportion. He was the commanding officer of an early battle in what has become a century-old war between the Syndicate Worlds and the Alliance. John "Black Jack" Geary has recently been rescued from a 100-year-old escape pod with a damaged beacon. The Lost Fleet: Dauntless cover Plot Summary Dauntless sets the stage for the six novel saga about a fleet of over 200 ships trapped deep behind enemy lines and cut off from traveling to their home territory. The Lost Fleet: Dauntless is the first book in Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet series that was published in 2006.
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