Starry Starry Knight

The first book in a new series by the best-selling author of Live Free or Die.

Joseph Smith went to bed one night and opened his eyes in a hospital room that wasn’t on Earth.

The year was supposed to be 2025. The doctor said it was 3128. Joe was twenty-three again, scars gone, body reset—and everyone treated his memories of the twenty-first century as a side effect of long-term stasis.

Welcome to the Union of Free Worlds: heavily armed, lightly governed, and sitting next door to the Pax Romana, a slave-holding empire that has already decided the Union looks soft.

Joe does what he has always done. He rolls with it.

He learns the local rules (carry a gun, you are the police, don’t trust the government). He discovers that future food is an abomination and decides the galaxy needs real pizza. And when pirates and the Pax start taking people as slaves, he starts taking them back—one ship, one raid, one impossible rescue at a time.

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Praise for John Ringo:
“ . . . the thinking reader’s zombie novel . . . Ringo fleshes out his theme with convincing details . . . the proceedings become oddly plausible.” —Publishers Weekly on Under a Graveyard Sky

“[Ringo’s work is] peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse.” —Library Journal

“Explosive . . . fans . . . will appreciate Ringo’s lively narrative and flavorful characters.” —Publishers Weekly

“ . . . practically impossible not to read in one sitting . . . exceedingly impressive . . . executed with skill, verve, and wit.” —Booklist

“Crackerjack storytelling.” —Starlog

John Ringo is the New York Times best-selling author of the Black Tide Rising series, the Posleen War series, the Through the Looking Glass series, and more, including the Troy Rising series, of which Live Free or Die is the first installment. A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, Ringo brings firsthand knowledge of military operations to his fiction.