From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the next book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series.

The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the home of Reclamation to research a distress call from the human starship the Lucy’s Ghost. Her crew forego their crippled ship and look for refuge aboard an deserted, slower-than-light generation dispatch released ten thousand years before by an alien competition. However, the enormous ship contains about Fleet of Knives: An Embers of Battle Novel fatal secrets of its.

Recovered war criminal Ona Sudak encounters a firing squad on her behalf actions in the Archipelago War. But, on the last minute, she is smuggled out of her high-security prison. The Marble Armada has needed her to accompany its ships as observer and liaison since it spreads itself across the individual Generality, enforcing the serenity no matter what. The alien boats will not tolerate resistance, and all dissenters are met with frustrating and implacable drive. Then her vessel intercepts communications from the House of Reclamation and decides the Trouble Dog includes a capacity for violence which cannot be allowed to endure.

As the Trouble Doggie and her crew fight to save lots of the crew from the Lucy’s Ghost, the dispatch sees herself caught between chaotic alien monsters using one part and, on the other, destruction as a result of the Marble Armada.