HULL BY HULL, HE'S BUILDING A NAVY OUT OF A GRAVEYARD.
Commander Elias Thorne turned two empires against each other. It cost him everything but nine wounded survivors and a ship that will never burn again. Cut off. Hunted. Written off in every ledger the Syndicate keeps.
They expect him to run.
Instead, Thorne limps his dead frigate into Lethe: a deep-space naval graveyard the Syndicate abandoned two fiscal cycles ago. Sixty capital hulls, dark and cold, waiting to be cut apart and welded into a fleet.
But Lethe's manifest claims two hundred and fourteen warships. The other hundred and fifty never existed. The guns ringing the boneyard don't defend the steel. They defend the number: the fraud the whole reserve was built to hide. And nobody who prices the lie is meant to leave.
Then the Syndicate sends the Comptroller.
She hunts by mass and fuel burn, the only things that can't be forged. She reads Thorne the way he reads everyone else: as arithmetic. And she has already drawn the vector that ends at Lethe.
Thorne can't outshoot a dreadnought squadron, so he won't try. He'll turn the graveyard itself into the weapon. Ten million tons of dead, cold, coasting steel, aimed down the one fuel-rational lane the enemy's own doctrine forces it to fly. In the deep black, the laws of physics are deadlier than any corporate war chest. Thorne means to prove it one kinetic strike at a time.
The Syndicate thinks it's hunting a wounded animal. It never calculated that the animal has been doing the math.
Kinetic Harvest is a full-length, 93,000-word novel and the third book in The Vanguard Calculus series: hard military science fiction built on realistic orbital mechanics, zero-gravity salvage, and logistical warfare. For readers who devour the fleet tactics of Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet, the chain-of-command grit of David Weber's Honor Harrington, and the survival math of Andy Weir.
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Genre: Science Fiction
Commander Elias Thorne turned two empires against each other. It cost him everything but nine wounded survivors and a ship that will never burn again. Cut off. Hunted. Written off in every ledger the Syndicate keeps.
They expect him to run.
Instead, Thorne limps his dead frigate into Lethe: a deep-space naval graveyard the Syndicate abandoned two fiscal cycles ago. Sixty capital hulls, dark and cold, waiting to be cut apart and welded into a fleet.
But Lethe's manifest claims two hundred and fourteen warships. The other hundred and fifty never existed. The guns ringing the boneyard don't defend the steel. They defend the number: the fraud the whole reserve was built to hide. And nobody who prices the lie is meant to leave.
Then the Syndicate sends the Comptroller.
She hunts by mass and fuel burn, the only things that can't be forged. She reads Thorne the way he reads everyone else: as arithmetic. And she has already drawn the vector that ends at Lethe.
Thorne can't outshoot a dreadnought squadron, so he won't try. He'll turn the graveyard itself into the weapon. Ten million tons of dead, cold, coasting steel, aimed down the one fuel-rational lane the enemy's own doctrine forces it to fly. In the deep black, the laws of physics are deadlier than any corporate war chest. Thorne means to prove it one kinetic strike at a time.
The Syndicate thinks it's hunting a wounded animal. It never calculated that the animal has been doing the math.
Kinetic Harvest is a full-length, 93,000-word novel and the third book in The Vanguard Calculus series: hard military science fiction built on realistic orbital mechanics, zero-gravity salvage, and logistical warfare. For readers who devour the fleet tactics of Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet, the chain-of-command grit of David Weber's Honor Harrington, and the survival math of Andy Weir.
Scroll up, buy now or read free in Kindle Unlimited, and deploy with the crew of the Aegis.
Genre: Science Fiction
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