There has been a murder on the Baxter research station, orbiting the New Sydney colony. One of the two victims was a scientist working on a classified government project, Joel Peterson. Lt. Commander Jack Reilly is on the case, but for him it’s personal. Joel was a friend from his academy days who he owed everything. Jack will let nothing stand in his way to find the killer.
Order on AmazonReilly thought his career in the fleet was over after being injured and discharge shortly before the end of the war. But he now finds himself back in the fleet as an investigator tasked with cleaning up the corruption from within. What he discovers will send him and Major Mitchell on a chase for the truth and back into the crossfire.
Captain Rebecca Tansky is facing a court-martial. Reilly and Mitchell have to investigate why she went rogue and committed treason by violating a treaty with a planet that has the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Reilly knows there is more than what meets the eyes, and they need to discover the truth before Tansky faces a firing squad and the Alliance is drawn into a conflict that they can not win.
The final prophesy for the Commander says that he must face a trail to stand before the oncoming darkness. Neither Roy nor Katreena knew what that would be, just that it would one day happen, and it would be the moment that would change everything, for it is the last of the prophet Queen’s predictions.
Lt. Commander Jack Reilly was setting into his new life, married, with a new baby, and a career in the Fleet JAG office on New Harmony, where he excelled. But a new investigation into missing cargo ships uncovers a much bigger conspiracy against the Alliance, and questions about the loyalties of his AIs threaten to unravel his home life.
There has been a murder on the Baxter research station, orbiting the New Sydney colony. One of the two victims was a scientist working on a classified government project, Joel Peterson. Lt. Commander Jack Reilly is on the case, but for him it’s personal. Joel was a friend from his academy days who he owed everything. Jack will let nothing stand in his way to find the killer.