One of the best military science fiction series on the market," ( Monsters and Critics ) The Lost Fleet delivers thrilling combat on a grand space opera scale. Now, Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary embarks on a brand new missionto defend the Alliance from itselfin New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell's latest action-packed novel... Two Syndicate World star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warshipsa fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligencethat is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security, but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance. As the government attempts to conceal the existence of the A.I. warshipsand its role in their creationGeary pursues them, treading a fine line between mutiny and obedience. But it soon becomes clear that his fleet is no match for the firepower of the machine-piloted armada. With the help of the Dancer species of aliens, Geary has tracked the A.I. ships to their secret base in the supposedly mythical Unity Alternate star system where his fleet, the last hope of the Alliance's future, will end the conflict at any cost...