Sometimes Captain Potential Robichaux fights with the book-and sometimes he throws the publication away. This makes him among the Union Space Navy’s rising stars. It is also what offers held him and his green team alive…so far.

When Maximum and his ship-the twenty-fourth-century space destroyer USS Cumberland-are boxed in by eight foe battleships, the odds are against them at a million to one. It takes almost all their skill and guts merely to escape…and surviving won’t get less difficult.

Sent on the covert mission behind enemy lines, Maximum and his team are poised to strike a blow so difficult that, if successful, it could switch the tide of the battle. But if they fail, you will be charged them their lives…as well as the lives of every human in the galaxy.