Dreadnaught

The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier

By: Jack Campbell

Narrated by: Christian Rummel, Jack Campbell - introduction

Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

The first book of best-selling sci-fi author Jack Campbell’s new series "Beyond the Frontier" returns to find Captain John “Black Jack" Geary, the hero of the "Lost Fleet" series, awoken from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet.

Geary’s legendary exploits have earned him the adoration of the people—and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The century-long war between the Alliance and the Syndicate Worlds may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens occupying the far side of Syndic space and to determine how much of a threat they represent to the Alliance. And while the Syndic Worlds are no longer united, individually they may be more dangerous than ever before. 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 sent to the far side of space on a suicide mission.

William C. Dietz, the author of the "Legion of the Damned" series, calls Dreadnaught "a rousing adventure", and Elizabeth Moon, the Nebula Award-winning author of the "Vatta's War" series, says it’s “loaded with edge-of-your-seat combat". Read by Christian Rummel, who has narrated The Lost Fleet series to excellent reviews, Dreadnaught promises to be an out-of-this-world experience.

BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction written and read by author Jack Campbell.

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Not bad

I fell in love with the narrator from the Remaining series and decided to give this a go because of him. It was good enough to buy the second installment immediately after the first was over.

Great Start!

I am loving the new characters both human and not! Christian Rummel continues to do an incredible job especially considering the number of characters, giving each a personality and unique "voice".

love Blackjack but the book was very slow

was happy about a follow-up series to The Lost Fleet, but this one started off incredibly slow . I actually had stopped reading it finished two other books and then came back to it because I was like I might as well get my money's worth l. but I was completely turned off by the book; thankfully the last three chapters were very exciting but that's also unfortunate that you had to wait for the last few chapters o really get excited about the series. . once again Tanya is incredibly annoying. in the last two books and the loss Fleet she started to really get a my nerves her Eagerness too just want to kill people was just overkill and she's really moody and snappy which disappointing because she was such a strong female character in the beginning. part of me wants to say skip it or just wait for it to go on sale like a BOGO

Not my favorite

The book was of the same quality of the previous books in the original series, but reading about all the politics and small issues during the first half of the book was tiresome. At least in the first series all of this was interspersed with battle to break up the irritation of these pointless and pedantic "threats." Clearly Henry (or Campbell) has plenty of experience with how annoying dealing with fleet HQ can be, but to subject it to us for 6 straight chapters was torture.

Thankfully, the fleet is in enemy territory ("beyond the frontier") by midway through the book, and, while still frustrating, at least we get to vicariously relieve stress by blowing shit up through the characters.

Anyway, 4/5 for the story, but I'm bullish about the prospects of future books. Despite my issues with this particular book, it set the rest of the series up nicely.

[Minor spoiler] I'm really hoping that by the time the fleet returns to Alliance space, Geary makes nice with the high ranking POWs and he has powerful allies to promote the fleet upon their return to home.

an ok book

This series by Jack Campbell is ok. The constant complaints about politicians takes up 90% of this book, by the time you get to the actual story the book is almost done!

amazing

amazing series. just when you think it levels out. it throws twist in the story that leaves you ask what's next!

New Fan of Jack Campbell

Would you listen to Dreadnaught again? Why?

Yes. The story flowed and the reader did a great job.

What did you like best about this story?

Just the right amount of politics and political intrigue between battles.

Which scene was your favorite?

Marines landing on the asteroid prison.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

What out for the Hell Lance.

Good series

Any additional comments?

Need to listen to the previous series, which is where this serious take over. Some of the references are lost because I didn't know about the 1st series. "The Lost Fleet"

alot of politics and no real resolution at the end

this is my first book in this series. I thought it was the first book but there were many references that implied a previous book. Story is really about politics set in space and a poor attempt at analysis of the human condition. Reading was pretty good if you can get past the overly macho sounding Blackjack. I may listen to more books in this series, but not sure yet.

Excellent Read

This my second time reading this title. I started with the first book in Lost Fleet series. Starting the story at the beginning made the understanding of this book much better and overall the experience was more entertaining.
The relationship of Admiral Geary and Captain Dejouny needs more development to make it a realistic part of the story rather than a kind of ongoing buddy relationship instead of a marriage. This is military scifi though so perhaps a real male female relationship is not necessary. Jack Campell did develop the relationship between Admiral Geary and Co President Reoun. The narrator does a great job with a all the voices clearly representing different characters. Definitely enjoy this Author and Narrator.