There is one chance to avert war.Read the first book in Jay Allan’s blockbuster Blood on the Stars series.A duel, in the deepest darks, a savage fight between two veteran warriors, two captains, two heroes. An epic battle that only one can survive. A fight to determine if there is peace, or a bloody war where billions will die.The Confederation battleship Dauntless has spent ten months patrolling … Dauntless has spent ten months patrolling the border, alone, watching for an attack from the enemy Union. The crew is exhausted, and the aging vessel needs repairs.
The fleet is mobilized, ready for the war it knows is coming. The forward bases are overloaded beyond capacity, and Dauntless is sent clear across the Confederation, to a base along the peaceful and sleepy sector known as the Far Rim.
But the quiet frontier isn’t quite what it seems, and a distress call from a mining colony at the edge of Confederation space, sends Captain Tyler Barron and his ship forward into the unknown.
Barron and his crew have their ship—and each other—but they can expect no reinforcements. His superiors believe that Union deceit is at play, that the attack is merely a diversion, intended to draw Confederation forces from the disputed border. Their orders are clear: no ships will be transferred from the main front. Stopping whatever is happening on the Far Rim is Barron’s responsibility, and his alone.
Barron is the grandson of the Confederation’s greatest hero, and his name has always carried great privilege, along with crushing responsibility. Now he must prove that he has inherited more than just a name from his famous ancestor.
He must face the enemy, and win the victory.
Before the Confederation is caught between two enemies and destroyed.
“Allan strikes gold with his first novel in the Blood on the Stars series. Marines fighting on the ground and spacers slugging it out in the inky blackness of deep space, it doesn’t get much more exciting.” – Amazon Review
Start the series readers are calling, “a complicated, detailed, and compelling story,” and “a rich and satisfying experience.”
All the Blood in the Stars Series are available on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited.
Book 1: Duel in the Dark
Book 2: Call to Arms
Book 3: Ruins of Empire
Book 4: Echoes of Glory
Book 5: Crucible of Fire
Book 6: Dauntless
Book 7: The White Fleet
Book 8: Black Dawn
Book 9: Invasion
Book 10: Nightfall
Book 11: The Grand Alliance
Book 12: The Colossus
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Great book, had me very interested in the antagonist as well as the protagonist. Later books in the series I would probably rate 4/5 stars and not quite up the same level as the first.
This series is good space opera. I like the characters and the humanity on both sides of the conflict. That is, even the bad guys were good when one considers their being trapped in their own political system.
Excellent read, like most of Jay Allen books.
Left me wanting the next book in series.
Good, straight forward sci-fi
Good military sci-fi where the underdogs rise to the challenge.
Jay Allan does what use to be called Space Operas, oh so well (see his Marines/Crimson Worlds series). The alternating perspectives/ points of view, allowing the reader to understand the motivations of each society, ship’s captains and crew, is excellent, causing me to root for one side & then the other. Love the battle/ duel of strategies between the ship captains, both seeking to gain advantage, one trying to protect against invasion and the other to advance their place in the cosmos. Definitely recommend this one!
Nobody in modern SciFi can touch Jay Allan for realism and intensity. Great imagination.
A good quick read, although there were a tad too many cliches for my liking. Nevertheless, I stuck around for the end!
Great story, but you need to stay with it. At the beginning it’s difficult to like the characters and really care why the are trying to get ahead. Better with audible when you can let it run through parts you wouldn’t feeli like reading. I bought the whispersynch to go with it.
It kept me reading to the end.
a great read
This was a great book. Unpredictable!
Awesome book
I found this book boring, slow paced, and confusing. It switched between three opponents without doing anything useful with the scenario that had just been presented. I struggled through 38%, according to my tablet, before ending my torture of further reading and erasing the book.
I really enjoyed this book. It reminded me of other books but in a positive reinforcing way.
Along the lines of David Weber. Similar style but NOT the same.
Very good military science fiction I used to read this genre a lot about 30 to 40 years ago and this trilogy stood up with the best of Joe Haldeman and others
Author built up main characters so well that it was difficult to decide which side you wished to be for. Will read more of this author’s books.
I am a space opera kind of guy, this book caught and held my attention until the last page, This is the kind of book that interests me the most