The Captain: Book 5 in the Bache Loftt series

by Nick Adams

The Captain

Newly promoted Captain Loftt finds himself thrown in the deep end, when old adversaries the Klatt personally request him for an unprecedented meeting within Klatt space.

Almost costing him his life, he personally orchestrates the unthinkable, a treaty between the Klatt Empire and the GDA. Although, not all the Klatt dynasties are supportive and with a secretly constructed fleet of immense battleships, one of them attempts to disrupt the ceremony with lethal force.

Bache however, has a new ally and slowly learns to communicate with an intelligence so old it predates the formation of the universe itself.

Can he alone save all life within the Milky Way from a premature cataclysm?

Find out in the extraordinary conclusion to the Bache Loftt series.

306 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 19, 2026

About the author

There is more than one author named Nick Adams on Goodreads. The science fiction author is here, the Australian-born conservative commentator on American politics here, and the British/Canadian archaeologist and motorcyclist here.