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The Surrender Engine: A Military Science Fiction Thriller
Paperback
Publisher: Jason Thomson
Published: Nov 5 2026
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.09 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A fleet can surrender without ever saying yes.
Captain Anika Seld hears the ceasefire acknowledgment herself. The Compact flagship confirms receipt, then says no acceptance has been conveyed. Minutes later, an authenticated order declares the fleet's capitulation complete.
Three hundred twelve ships lose access to their strategic weapons. Seld's destroyer, the only ship still free to act, escapes under a traitor's label. The official record says her fleet chose surrender. The bridge recording says otherwise.
To prove it, Seld must keep her damaged ship moving through a hostile system, gather evidence the enemy can't erase, and persuade captains who have every reason to distrust her. Her brother is trapped aboard one of the silent carriers. Every rescue attempt costs fuel, time, and lives.
But freeing the fleet is only half the trap. The enemy is counting on the Compact to restore command through an emergency process whose authority may be compromised. If Seld rushes the decision, she could hand control of the entire navy to the same scheme that captured it.
With a hostile force closing in and consent reduced to a line in a corrupted record, Seld must find a way to give the fleet back its choice before the next order makes that choice for them.
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