Leviathan

The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier, Book 5

By: Jack Campbell

Narrated by: Christian Rummel

Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

The Lost Fleet delivers thrilling combat on a grand space-opera scale. Now Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary embarks on a brand-new mission - to defend the Alliance from itself - in New York Times best-selling author Jack Campbell's latest action-packed novel....

Two Syndicate World star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships - a fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligence - that is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance.

As the government attempts to conceal the existence of the AI warships - and its role in their creation - Geary pursues them, treading a fine line between mutiny and obedience. But it soon becomes clear that his fleet is no match for the firepower of the machine-piloted armada.

With the help of the Dancer species of aliens, Geary has tracked the AI ships to their secret base in the supposedly mythical Unity Alternate star system where his fleet, the last hope of the Alliance's future, will end the conflict at any cost....

©2015 John G. Hemry (P)2015 Audible Inc.

Critic reviews

"One of the best military science fiction series on the market." (Monsters and Critics)

Captivating story

Jack Campbell is one of my favorite Sci-Fi authors and this book “Leviathan “does not disappointing.

Apparently the Alliance Worlds has created a fleet of ships that operate on Artificial Intelligence, only the flag ship has a human on board. The Alliance has kept the existence of the AI fleet a secret. Two syndicate world Star Systems have fallen prey to this “dark fleet.” Now they are attacking Alliance space and Geary goes out to stop them. The dark fleet has the AI programmed with the tactics of the legendary Black Jack Geary.

Geary is having problems stopping this dark fleet. He calls for help from the Dancer species of aliens. Geary must stop this fleet before the Syndicate Worlds think the Alliance is renewing the war. Victoria Rione attempts to discover information and stop this fleet. In this book a few of the major long term characters in this series die a hero’s death.

The book is well written and moves at a fast pace. Lots of action and space battles, Campbell fully understands the implications of 3-D combat in space and does not waste the reader’s time with dry explanations, he just flows it simply into the story. Christian Rummel does a great job narrating this series.

Best yet

Finally some real conflict with real losses. Black jack finally has problems he can't magic away and real people have to make real decisions to come out on top.

Atta boy Jack Campbell. Atta boy

Action! Action! Action!

This audio exceeded my expectations and I literally could not stop listening from start to finish. If there were any part that dragged along I can't remember any of them. The story was filled with more emotional moments than a "moving" van and more twists and turns than a roller coaster. As always the narrator captivated this listener with marvelous character improvisations and grand reading inflections and cadence. This was a wonderful; no, marvelous listen. Bravo Zulu ("Well done" in Fleet lingo.).

Amazing!

Leviathan is military/sci-fi at its finest. Story and characters that kept me engaged from the very beginning. A stellar performance by Christian Rummel as well.

Wow

great book great story!!! This series was amazing. I am sorry it is over :-(

A great adventure

This was a great adventure. I love the twist interns and all the action each book open the new door into different realities. The author does a great job of keeping each book as an independent and yet leaving a common thread through all. You will enjoy the whole series, and maybe dislike a lot of politicians. Enjoy.

Blackjack and Co. do it again!

Great storyline and happy to finally addressing the corrupt government people. I wasn’t super satisfied with the ending. I hoped to find who was behind the ships. I would also like to see blackjack and his wife get some leave. I mean dam… Jack… let them kiss already. Shit.

Entertaining science fiction

Admiral Geary takes us near the end of humanity. Song becomes the language between aliens and the fleet. Ultimate sacrifice is necessary to save the Alliance. I listened to this book almost straight through as I had to know the outcome of the battle between " cold minds" and Black Jack. Dancers remain in character until their true language type is discovered.
Riveting action upholding our best principles. Masterful performance with characters clearly defined by different by different voices.

Brilliant plot and breathless pacing

This book was incredible. I recently completed a full listen of both the first series and the Beyond the Frontier series and Leviathan is a brilliant capstone.
Long series risk falling into a formulaic churn, but with Steadfast and then Leviathan, the author flips the reader away from the expected. He manages to adhere to all of his established character development and universe rules and still manages to elevate the stakes.
The narrator is consistent and excellent to the end. This might be my favorite book in the Lost Fleet and Beyond the Frontier series. If you were hoping that the story would hold up, you will not be disappointed.

Amazing

the story was amazing!!!!!!!!!!! And a fantastik ending wich made you buffeld. I loves ut.