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Stag Privateers #2
Last Stand
Its reputation is known throughout the explored universe.
It is the light cruiser Last Stand, a privateer piloted by the legendary captain, Aiden Thorne.
His war was lost a decade ago but he fights on, refusing to stand by while the madmen of the Deconstructionist Movement grind humanity down into chaos. Aided by his dysfunctional crew, he attacks Movement trading vessels and warships and plunders them for cargo and spare parts to sell to continue his fight. His only goal is to either see the universe restored to some semblance of sanity, or let his ship live up to its name by fighting on until he finally meets an enemy who can beat him.
Lana has no past, and no future. Rescued from a stasis pod by the crew of the Last Stand, she discovers her mind has been wiped and she was intended to be sold into slavery. A Blank Slate, she now struggles to understand who she is and where she came from, and what her place in a cruel and brutal universe is, even as she's swept up in Aiden's personal war.
She's come aboard at the worst possible time, because the captain just might get his wish to find an enemy who can beat him. The Movement has put a bounty on the Last Stand and its crew large enough to buy a colony world, and they're finally turning the might of their galaxy-spanning regime to the hunt for the lone vessel. Even worse, they might have a more insidious surprise waiting for the privateers.
It is the light cruiser Last Stand, a privateer piloted by the legendary captain, Aiden Thorne.
His war was lost a decade ago but he fights on, refusing to stand by while the madmen of the Deconstructionist Movement grind humanity down into chaos. Aided by his dysfunctional crew, he attacks Movement trading vessels and warships and plunders them for cargo and spare parts to sell to continue his fight. His only goal is to either see the universe restored to some semblance of sanity, or let his ship live up to its name by fighting on until he finally meets an enemy who can beat him.
Lana has no past, and no future. Rescued from a stasis pod by the crew of the Last Stand, she discovers her mind has been wiped and she was intended to be sold into slavery. A Blank Slate, she now struggles to understand who she is and where she came from, and what her place in a cruel and brutal universe is, even as she's swept up in Aiden's personal war.
She's come aboard at the worst possible time, because the captain just might get his wish to find an enemy who can beat him. The Movement has put a bounty on the Last Stand and its crew large enough to buy a colony world, and they're finally turning the might of their galaxy-spanning regime to the hunt for the lone vessel. Even worse, they might have a more insidious surprise waiting for the privateers.
319 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 28, 2019
About the author
Nathan Jones
31 books31 followersMy name is Nathan Jones. I write mainly in the post-apocalyptic and science fiction genres. My most recently completed project is The Challenge, first book of the post-apocalyptic No More Content series, a collaboration with my brother Seth Jones. My next project is Mythas, first book of the fantasy adventure series Band of Outcasts.
I've been a longtime reader of post-apocalyptic fiction, and like to explore various scenarios in which disasters could occur. One interest has been observing just how fragile our modern life is, and how little it would take to send us back to a low tech existence that people in general no longer possess the knowledge or skills to survive in. That interest inspired me to write and publish my completed post-apocalyptic series Best Laid Plans, comprising the five books Fuel, Shortage, Invasion, Reclamation, and Determination, and to build on that story with the completed Nuclear Winter series, which begins shortly after Best Laid Plans ends and includes the four books First Winter, First Spring, Chain Breakers, and Going Home, as well as the standalone novel Fallen City.
Outside the Best Laid Plans world I've written the completed post-apocalyptic Mountain Man series, with the novels Badlands, Homecoming, Homeland, Mountain War, Final Stand, and Lone Valley. I also have the completed post-apocalyptic Isolation series with Shut In, Going Out, Starting Anew, and Holding On. My current post-apocalyptic series is No More Content, with the recently released first book The Challenge.
I've also been a longtime reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, with an equally deep love of those two genres. This has inspired multiple projects, the most recently completed being my science fiction novel Caretakers, Book Two of the Stag Privateers series, sequel to Last Stand. My other science fiction story is Boralene, Book One of the Stellar Merger series.
The stories I've written in the Young Adult Fantasy genre have now been moved over from another pen name to be available alongside my other books. These books include the completed The Watchers trilogy with Undying Heights, Ithel's Library, and Deep Dwelling, the completed The Protectorate series with Corsairs, Revenants, Invaders, and Shipwrights, and the standalone children's fairy tale Firefly Girl.
I've been a longtime reader of post-apocalyptic fiction, and like to explore various scenarios in which disasters could occur. One interest has been observing just how fragile our modern life is, and how little it would take to send us back to a low tech existence that people in general no longer possess the knowledge or skills to survive in. That interest inspired me to write and publish my completed post-apocalyptic series Best Laid Plans, comprising the five books Fuel, Shortage, Invasion, Reclamation, and Determination, and to build on that story with the completed Nuclear Winter series, which begins shortly after Best Laid Plans ends and includes the four books First Winter, First Spring, Chain Breakers, and Going Home, as well as the standalone novel Fallen City.
Outside the Best Laid Plans world I've written the completed post-apocalyptic Mountain Man series, with the novels Badlands, Homecoming, Homeland, Mountain War, Final Stand, and Lone Valley. I also have the completed post-apocalyptic Isolation series with Shut In, Going Out, Starting Anew, and Holding On. My current post-apocalyptic series is No More Content, with the recently released first book The Challenge.
I've also been a longtime reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, with an equally deep love of those two genres. This has inspired multiple projects, the most recently completed being my science fiction novel Caretakers, Book Two of the Stag Privateers series, sequel to Last Stand. My other science fiction story is Boralene, Book One of the Stellar Merger series.
The stories I've written in the Young Adult Fantasy genre have now been moved over from another pen name to be available alongside my other books. These books include the completed The Watchers trilogy with Undying Heights, Ithel's Library, and Deep Dwelling, the completed The Protectorate series with Corsairs, Revenants, Invaders, and Shipwrights, and the standalone children's fairy tale Firefly Girl.
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December 29, 2019
Excellent!
That was one really good story! Dig it so much I couldn't put it back before I finished it! Try it!
That was one really good story! Dig it so much I couldn't put it back before I finished it! Try it!
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