The novel “The Lost Fleet: Dauntless” by Jack Campbell was published for the first time in 2006. It’s the first in The Lost Fleet series.

John Geary was awakened from the cryogenic stasis he had entered a century earlier in hopes of escaping the enemy. He’s still trying to understand what kind of situation he ended up in and the only clear thing is that the war he was fighting is still going on and the Alliance fleet has suffered a heavy defeat. The Admiral goes to the enemy to negotiate the surrender leaving Geary in command as the senior officer, but is killed as a warning to the whole fleet.

Forced to decide which is the best choice to save the starships in the fleet that can still travel, John Geary realizes that his latest actions before going into stasis turned him into a legend. Military technology has progressed over a century, but some old tricks might have been forgotten by the enemy.