A Just Determination. Jack Campbell Writing as John G. Hemry - Softcover

Jack Campbell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857689401 ISBN 13: 9780857689405

Publisher: Titan Books, 2012

Synopsis

When the USS Michaelson's captain faces court-martial following the destruction of a civilian research vessel, Paul Sinclair finds himself defending a doomed officer.

About this title

About the Author:

Jack Campbell is the pseudonym for John G. Hemry, a retired Naval officer and graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. As Jack Campbell, he writes The Lost Fleet series of military science fiction novels. He also wrote the Stark's War and JAG in Space series under his real name.

From Booklist:

Henry's superior military sf novel takes us aboard a modern space warship (as opposed to one conceptually derived from C. S. Forester), the USS Michaelson, and confronts its protagonist, Ensign Paul Sinclair, more with ethical dilemmas than with risks to life and limb. Not that the latter aren't there, in the form of accidents and a confrontation with a South Asian survey vessel that, when Captain Paul Wakeman believes it is attacking, the Michaelson destroys. When Wakeman is hauled before a court-martial for disobeying his orders, Sinclair is called to defend him. The captain, Sinclair insists, shouldn't be scapegoated for actions within the bounds of his orders, even if those orders were poorly phrased, and Wakeman's judgment was flawed. The last third of the book recalls nothing so much as The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial in an sf setting, and it attains the same high level of achievement. Although Henry probably has too much taste to launch a googolplexology from this book, if he were to do so, discerning readers might applaud. Roland Green
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About this edition

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857689401
• ISBN 13: 9780857689405
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336