
The war for the Alliance was lost, but the battle for its soul is just beginning. After years in exile running a freight business, legendary hero Alexander "Sandy" Pike has returned to the uniform he never thought he'd wear again. But this isn't the navy he left...

The third of the Sandy Pike series, following Pike's Passage, a Finalist for the BookLife Prize. Sandy rejoins the Alliance Navy as they look to recover planetary systems lost after their surrender to the Hegemony of United Worlds and the subsequent civil war in the hegemony...