Strike point: Core Seven. An entire task force destroyed. But it wasn't the Sarn. Does the Alliance have a new enemy?
"How do you want the strike group armed, sir?"
"Revelation Chapter Sixteen."
Task Force 156 has been massacred. Nine starships including the battlecruisers San Cristobal and Dunbrody are burning wrecks. Hundreds of officers and crew dead or missing. The battleship Argent and the newly reinforced Perseus Strike Fleet is first on the scene. There can be no doubt who was responsible after the savage Bloodwing attack against Lunar Six One and the devastating invasion of El Rey.
The Second Praetorian Interstellar War is Here!
Human worlds from Platmore Field to Epsilon Gamma now face imminent attack. Five possible primary targets are in the sights of the Imperial war fleet. Skywatch forces have been dispatched to strike points spanning more than twenty light years, but the admiralty knows they don't have the firepower to match the combined might of three armadas.
What Captain Hunter discovers aboard San Cristobal could reach beyond our universe!
Catastrophic risks forced by corrupt delays and appeasement combined with short-sighted cruelty inflicted on former enemies have caught up with human civilization, and now Alliance populations will pay the price if new captains like Commander Vincent Orelian of the heavy cruiser Los Angeles and Commander Luca Van Deer of the strike cruiser Alecto make even a single mistake!
Meanwhile, what Argent's boarding party finds aboard the Task Force flagship cannot be explained by science or superstition. Alien creatures from no known world emerge from every shadow aboard the floating tomb once known as DSS San Cristobal. They bring with them is a pestilence no man can survive.
Something is causing the bulkheads of a starship to bleed!
This is the Alliance's third major defeat. There will be no easy victories from here out. No glory and no place to hide. Immense spacecraft with the power to destroy life on a planetary scale have invaded human systems. Alliance planets are in danger for the first time in nearly 100 years. Only the selfless bravery and sacrifice of the fleet and the marines can bring this new war to an end before there is nothing is left to fight for!
Let None Return Alive is the maximum-firepower first book in Shane Lochlann Black's third military science fiction collection - Destroy All Starships!