Bøger af Jake Elwood

A desperate captain. A crippled ship. An impossible choice. The frigate Kestrel has been shot to pieces. She's out of fuel, stranded deep behind enemy lines. It looks hopeless. But Tom Thrush, junior lieutenant and acting captain, has sworn he'll get his people home. Escape means fuel, and that means taking it from the enemy. A daring raid gives the Kestrel a fighting chance - but a rescued prisoner has some disturbing news. A ragtag local militia has put together a fleet. The fleet is gathering - and it's about to blunder into a trap. There's only one way the militia fleet will survive. The battered, exhausted crew of the Kestrel must turn their backs on safety and plunge once more into battle. They're hurt. They're scared. But they have their duty. The Kestrel is a ship of war, and she will not die easy.

Cassandra Marx is a thief, and a good one. This time she got greedy, though. She swiped a priceless artifact from Carmody, the most powerful man on Hesperus. He's been beating his daughter, Lark, so Cassie took the kid too. Now Carmody is tearing the galaxy apart hunting Cassie down. The artifact isn't just a priceless relic of a lost civilization. It's the key to a galaxy-wide conspiracy. Cassie needs to figure out the significance of the ancient egg, but with bounty hunters and mercenaries hounding her from one end of the galaxy to the other, she and Lark have another puzzle to solve -- how to stay alive.

A plot to steal a priceless artifact Lark is on a school field trip when she thinks up a way to steal the Orb of the Stars. When she tells her guardian she expects him to talk her out of it. Instead, Jerry climbs onto the roof of the opera house - and stumbles into the middle of a kidnapping plot. Becomes a fight to the death with ruthless fanatics Now the Plateau Society is after Jerry. When he escapes, they go after his partner, Cassandra Marx. It's a mistake. Cassie tried to put her past behind her, but someone is after her family, and someone is going to pay. She still has all the skills that made her the best thief in the galaxy. Now she'll use those skills - and a ruthless determination to keep her family safe - to tear down the Plateau Society and make those fanatics regret the day they decided to come after the people Cassie holds dear.

A Deadly Ambush Captain Tom Thrush is patrolling the Octagon Rift when his ship is attacked by a black destroyer that seems to predict his every move. Outgunned and outmaneuvered, he flees in a crippled ship to the only sanctuary he can reach-a den of thieves and spies called Lotus Station. StrandedHis ship will be broken up for scrap. Half the crew are casualties. The rest are scattering, leaving Tom stuck on Lotus. As the black destroyer hunts down local freighters, Tom becomes obsessed with tracking it down and taking revenge. A Lost CorvetteThere are rumors of one more warship on Lotus Station. The Calgary is a heavy corvette, captured by the Dawn Alliance and towed to Lotus. A corvette is no match for a destroyer, but it's all he's got. If Tom can find the Calgary-if he can get her fit to fly-and if he can find a crew-he will face the black destroyer one more time.

Suicide MissionThe Dawn Alliance holds Novograd in a steel fist, protected by a battle fleet and an armored space station. The factories of Novograd are the key to the war. Whoever controls the planet controls the Green Zone - and that means the station must be destroyed. The station will be a tough nut to crack, but Tom Thrush has a plan. The key to cracking a nut is to bring a big enough hammer. There's a crippled Dawn Alliance battleship limping home from the Battle of New Panama. His plan is simple: board the battleship, take control, and use it as a Trojan horse in a desperate assault on the station.All he has to do is find the battleship in the trackless wastes of hyperspace, fight his way onboard, take over, and set course for Novograd. With a little luck, a lot of courage, and an iron will, the station will fall - and the real battle will begin.

An Impossible Choice Camp One has one brutal rule: If you attempt to escape, you die - and three random prisoners die with you. Tom Thrush has resigned himself to dying by degrees, doing forced labor while he slowly starves. When he learns that a distant mesa holds a slim chance at freedom he does nothing. The price of escape is too high. Then fever sweeps through the camp. Surrounded by armed guards and an unforgiving jungle, paralyzed by the threat of reprisals, Tom watches as the men he's sworn to protect die one by one. If anyone is to survive, Tom will have to do the unthinkable. Escape.

The Last WarshipThe Alexander is the last true warship, a relic from the days of interstellar war. Captain Richard Hammett is a bit of a relic himself, an old war dog who doesn't really belong in a peacetime navy. His final mission is downright embarrassing: he's taking a ship full of cadets on a training run.When Gates start going offline, Hammett knows in his bones it means trouble - the kind of trouble only a real warship can handle. Defying orders, he takes the Alexander to the last Gate - and puts the ship in the path of an alien invasion. Now a captain at the end of his career will have to take dozens of terrified cadets and forge them into a crew of warriors, because they're all that stands between the Earth and the swarming ships of the Hive.Back on Earth, the government panics and orders Hammett to pull back. Humanity's far-flung colonies will have to fend for themselves. Hammett makes a different choice. Earth responds by sending a fleet - not to reinforce him, but to arrest him. All Hammett has to do now is save the colonies, keep the invaders from overrunning the Earth, and find a way to avoid a civil war ....This book contains all three volumes of the Hive Invasion trilogy: Starship AlexanderStarship TomahawkStarship Theseu

Out of the frying pan ...Tom Thrush thinks Basic Officer Training is tough - until he joins the frigate Kestrel and finds out what tough really means. The crew resents him. The First Officer is actively hostile. As the ship hunts pirates in deep space Tom struggles to fit in and wonders if things can get any worse. They can. And into the fire of interstellar warA devastating attack leaves the ship crippled with half the crew dead or dying. The senior officers are wiped out, leaving a terrified sublieutenant in the last place he wants to be. In command.

Never let a job get personal.Bounty hunting is risky enough when you do everything right. Taking foolish chances makes the risk infinitely worse. Lindy Cantos knows this. When she spots Darius Krasiuk in a crowd, she knows she should just walk away. He's one of the most dangerous fugitives in the galaxy.But Krasiuk was there on New Babylon. He was part of the massacre that's haunted Lindy for the last ten years. Back then, she couldn't do anything to stop the killing. But now?Now, she's got a chance to balance the scales.Krasiuk's hiding out in a desert wasteland. He's got a fortress and a private army. He thinks the galaxy has forgotten about him. He thinks he's safe.He's wrong.Lindy Cantos is looking for justice, and God help Krasiuk-or anyone else who gets in her way.Rogue Star is Book 3 in the Bounty Hunter Tales series, but you can read them in any order.

A Galaxy Engulfed by WarThe Dawn Alliance and the United Worlds are locked in a bitter war over the rich worlds of the Green Zone. The colony of New Panama is caught between the giants, and Tom Thrush has the impossible job of leading her rag-tag navy in a desperate struggle for survival. The Burden of CommandHis fleet is a mix of armed freighters and salvaged warships. The crews are former pirates with no military training. His enemy has the most powerful navy the galaxy has ever seen. With no hope of victory, he fights just to postpone annihilation. But these are the famed rebels of the Free Planets, tough and resourceful and hard as rats to kill. They might not count for much in a straight fight, but they know a thing or two about tackling impossible odds. If Tom can earn their respect, they might just teach him something about survival - or even victory.