Admiral of nothing

Author : CORBIN ASHWELL

The fleet is gone. Three ships remain. Their best hope is an officer the Navy has already condemned.

Sub-Lieutenant Ines Ravel knows what disobedience costs. Court-martialled for saving lives against orders, she now serves aboard Patience, an overlooked repair tender at the back of the Grand Fleet.

Then the fleet goes to Halcyon—and is annihilated.

Left commanding a battered tender, a crippled cruiser and a damaged destroyer, Ravel discovers a terrifying connection between the ships that survived. The tactical network meant to protect the fleet may have handed the enemy everything it needed to destroy it.

The Admiralty orders her home. A shipbuilding world of three million people is to be left undefended.

Ravel has other ideas.

With exhausted crews, stubborn engineers, civilian ore haulers and a battleship that cannot move, she begins assembling a defence that no naval manual would recognise. Deep inside Patience, a captured fragment of the enemy is beginning to reveal its secrets. If she can understand what it hears, she might turn the Lattice’s greatest advantage against it.

But the Navy has sent a captain to arrest her. The enemy is coming. And every life she asks her people to risk will be hers to answer for.

She has already lost her career for refusing to leave people behind. This time, an entire world is counting on her to do it again.

Admiral of Nothing by Corbin Ashwell opens The Ravel War, a military science fiction series blending tactical space battles, dry naval humour and the human cost of command.

📖 372 pages