Startling Innovations.

Cool Space Ships.

Evil Alien Butt Blasted to Smithereens!

Outpost Attack!

Gateway HD 36951 lies in ruins. All survivors slaughtered. A single, truncated message sent back to Earth. Something very bad indeed is afoot, and the A.S.S. Vorpal Blade (read: nuclear submarine converted to warp-drive space ship) is sent to investigate. But the ferocious, voracious

enemy Dreen wait for no man (or other carbon-based lifeform), and the Blade and her crew are soon the only hope for an alien species pushed to the brink of extinction. Turn back and abandon a new ally or face a heavily armed Dreen destroyer head on.

For the Blade's rough-and-ready crew, it's no contest. And now, with an infusion of technical know-how from humanity's new ally, chaos itself has become a weapon!

New York Times and USA Today multiple bestseller John Ringo joins with NASA and DOD consultant Travis S. Taylor—author of Warp Speed and The Quantum Connection.