A hideous accident kills the senior officers of the UNS Hibernia -- leaving a terrified young officer to save three hundred colonists and crew aboard a damaged ship, on a seventeen-
month gauntlet to reach the colony of Hope Nation. With no chance of rescue or reinforcement,
Nicholas Seafort must overcome despair, exhaustion, guilt; he must conquer malfunctions,
mutiny, and an alien horror beyond human understanding.
He must save lives. And he must take them, in the name of duty ...
The silent hell of deep space holds certain death for the unwary. It is the task of the U.N. Navy to defend the starways, no matter the danger ... the cost in lives. Facing light-years of travel
between Earth and the interstellar colonies, only an iron-willed leader can bring his ship to safety through the infinite night.
An alien attack and an admiral's betrayal leave a wounded Commander Nicholas Seafort
stranded aboard a doomed ship of arrogant colonists and violent street children. His crew is
rebellious, his ship short of weapons, fuel, food. East prey for alien predators now massing to attack. Only Nick's will stands between his charges and violent death. But is he merely postponing their end?
Assigned to Hope Nation while recovering from injuries, Captain Nicholas Seafort is appointed liason to the wealthy planters of the verdant colony planet. But, reeling from a savage alien
attack, the U.N. space flotilla flees homeward, and the colonists seize their moment to rebel.
His beloved wife and closest friends gone, Seafort must halt a revolution and rally the ravaged
colony against the inhuman invaders.
But to save the world, Nicholas Seafort must forsake his vows -- and commit
an unthinkable, suicidal act of high treason ...
Naval Academy Commandant Nicholas Seafort is a legend to the masses, an idol to his hundreds of teen cadets. They don't see the tormented soul of a man who believes that merciless duty
has led him to betray every friend he ever loved, every ideal he ever cherished. After a lifelong
ordeal, Seafort needs time. Time to reflect. Time to heal.
Instead, he is pulled into a maelstrom of crisis, corruption, and danger as the helpless, unprepared
Earth faces annihilation from a horde of alien attackers. Alone at the center of a cosmic
apocalypse, Nick Seafort must face his final battle ... And his most unforgivable sin.
A guilt-ridden politician, an earnest young boy, a sick old man eking out a living in the broken streets -- can they alone stop humanity from destroying itself in an urban Armageddon?
In a divided world, wealthy citizens look down from skytop aeries to crumbling streets where
the urban poor grow ever more desparate. As war brews, brilliant young Phillip Seafort --
only son of the tormented hero Nicholas Seafort -- plunges into the bowels of the city to find
his lost friend. Humanity is about to destroy itself. Children are in the line of fire.
And a father with an iron will is at Ground Zero.
U.N. SecGen Nicholas Seafort is the most powerful person on Earth, but his merciless sense of honor and faith is about to be tested. The ecology of the planet is on the point of collapse --
a crisis Seafort himself helped cause. And from a hijacked orbital platform, political renegades
hold millions hostage. Now, unarmed, with only civilians and children at his side, Nick Seafort
must go to war against the most dangerous enemies -- those from within.
And the cost may be more than even Seafort's iron will can bear ...
