Blackhawk

Blackhawk.  A wanderer, a man running from a dark and sinister past.  A genetically-engineered warrior, and a capable and accomplished killer, he is also a lost soul, a man who has fled to the deepest reaches of space seeking his true identity.

The Far Stars.  The farthest extent of human habitation in the galaxy, a sector of a hundred inhabited worlds, it is a dangerous expanse full of pirates, mercenaries, and cutthroats.  The sector is a rough and rugged frontier, lying beyond the darkness of the great Void, and the only place in all the vastness of space where men live free of the brutal empire that rules the rest of mankind.

Celtiboria.  Once the premier world in the Far Stars, now a planet wracked by centuries of brutal civil war, driven to the edge of a dark age by the unending struggle among its Warlords for power and control.

Augustin Lucerne.  One of Celtiboria’s feuding Warlords, a brilliant tactician and a respected commander.  Lucerne is something rare on Celtiboria, in all of the Far Stars…an honorable man who fights not for personal aggrandizement but to save his world.

When Blackhawk meets Lucerne he comes to a stark choice.  He can continue on his way, a drifter wandering from world to world, alone and without purpose.  Or he can join with Lucerne, fight at the Warlord’s side in desperate battle for survival.  But whatever he chooses, he will have to face the demons that have pursued him across the stars, the dark version of himself that still lives deep within his mind.

Blackhawk is a prequel to the Far Stars series, set twenty years before the existing books.  For those who have read the Far Stars trilogy, this is the origin story of Arkarin Blackhawk.  And for those who have not read the existing Far Stars series, Blackhawk is an ideal place to start.

The Far Stars Series

Shadow of Empire

Enemy in the Dark

Funeral Games