Starship Scorpion (The Galactic Wars Book 1)

Galactic Wars series

Captain Slade commands one of humanity's few remaining old destroyers, a veteran of the earlier war against the Verge. Twenty-five years have passed with no sign of the enemy, so the authorities in charge of planetary defence decide to scrap the aging ships. Slade, however, senses that an attack is coming and disobeys orders to return to base. In response, the command sends a single assassin to eliminate her and her unruly ship.

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The Verge have come back stronger than before, with better machines and armour that cannot be broken. Their goal is the total destruction of the human race. Slade, a crew of misfits, and a worn-out warship are all that stand between Earth and annihilation, and if the assassin succeeds, nobody will be left to fight.

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