Great War (Kern)

A must-listen novel from the author of the Sleeping Gods series.

Ralph Kern presents Book 2 in the Great War series.

The Great War spreads… One after another, the Kingdom’s star bases have fallen before the Neo Hegemony and their coalition. Only one remains in the strategically vital Talos Rift. Valestra. Low on supplies, low on fuel and low on food - The base’s only hope is a desperate resupply mission. The Kingdom fleet assembles the largest convoy yet, protected by dozens of warships and hundreds of fighters. Even with all the firepower the Kingdom can bring to bear, if only a single freighter manages to run the enemy’s relentless gauntlet, then the relief operation will be deemed a success. Lieutenant Jason ‘Rick’ Richards knows he’s the best Tempest pilot in the Kingdom. But there’s an enemy out there who is his equal. Someone only he can defeat. Someone he must defeat. Hegemony pilot, Major Gan Corla’s hatred for Rick burns strong. He has given himself body and soul to the Neo cause, but his hunger to take down his nemesis could overwhelm even that fanatical loyalty. Both will risk all to kill the other. Even the mission. Even the war, if need be. And while fighters and warships collide in ferocious combat, hidden in the dark, a new kind of warrior rises. Lieutenant Commander Nisha Draper and her stealth ship, the KSS Ghost, may be all that stands between the convoy, and the massive fleet of enemy reinforcements headed their way.

The largest invasion in the history of the galaxy begins. The People's territory is a prize ripe for the Hegemony's taking. Their worlds myriad. Their resources immense. From the highest echelons of government to the citizen toiling, it is a beacon of equality and a worker's paradise. Except some are more equal than others. To disobey, even to question, means death. Or worse. Private Iriana Sharov is just one soldier in the People's army of millions. When Hegemony assault ships darken the skies and disgorge legions of merciless troopers and mechs, she learns they are all merely pawns for their masters to sacrifice on an uncaring whim. The two brutal empires collide. For Sharov and her comrades, hope is measured in surviving each day, even each hour, as it comes. But when she discovers her skill with a sniper rifle, Sharov soon finds herself a hero of the People. Her odyssey will take her from the battlefields of an agricultural world, through the vicious street fighting of a labyrinthian factory moon, and into the very corridors of power in the People's capital city. But the greatest danger isn't the Hegemony and its vast armies of ever-advancing troops and war machines. It is telling the truth to those who don't want to hear it.