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Dreadnaught (2011)

by Jack Campbell
(#10 in The Lost Fleet Universe,
#7 in The Lost Fleet)
#1 in The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier)

The Alliance woke Captain John 'Black Jack' Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Fleet Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people-and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing.

Geary knows that members of the military high command and the government question his loyalty to the Alliance and fear his staging a coup-so he can't help but wonder if the newly christened First Fleet is being deliberately sent to the far side of space on a suicide mission.