On her last cruise, HMS Vanguard – the most powerful battleship in the Royal Navy – barely survived her encounter with a deadly new enemy. Now, with her commanding officer accused of everything from mutiny to dereliction of duty and her crew under a cloud, the Royal Navy doesn’t quite know what to do with her.
But there’s still a war on. And Vanguard must return to the front lines.
Assigned to a task force heading to assist humanity’s alien allies, Vanguard and her crew find themselves caught in a deadly alien trap. Can they survive to turn the tables on their enigmatic foe? Or will their next encounter with the new enemies be their last?
Good solid military science fiction This is a good solid military science fiction read. It is the 8th instalment in the Ark Royal series and a worthy one. As usual there is a good story, likable (and not so likable) characters and some good solid action in space and on the ground. It was a very enjoyable book to read.Â
Review of Fear God and Dread Naught It has been quite a while since I finished this book and life got in the way of doing the review when I finished it. So, I will do the best I can with an old man’s memory.Â
Stellar Star would have been proud of how she got them to surrender Author Christopher Nuttall introduced Georgina “George” Fitzwilliam in the last novel. In “Fear God and Dread Naught,” the eighth in the Ark Royal series and the second of the Vanguard novels, he continues the story around the woman straight out of the academy. She’s now placed in charge of the midshipmen, the lowest of the onboard officers. She’s given four newbies, a couple transfers with nebulous pasts and a couple straight from the Academy like she had been seven months…