A series · 5 books
The Long Watch
by R. S. Breed, in reading order
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Book 1 · Start here
Shakedown
A new captain. A first command. An unknown vessel that refuses every protocol. The ISV Resolute is six months out of the Houston yards when Marcus Cole is field-promoted into the captain's chair. He did not ask for comma...
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Book 2
The Deep Edge
A signal eighty thousand years old. A door that opens for one ship and not another. Two and a half years after the deployment that earned him his chair, Captain Marcus Cole takes the ISV Resolute to a junction cluster fl...
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Book 3
The Deep Frontier
A deep-frontier anomaly. A ship at the edge of known space. A captain who has learned not to trust silence. Captain Marcus Cole takes the ISV Resolute back into the deep frontier on a mission flagged only as an unspecifi...
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Book 4
The Ruins
A new ship. An eighty-thousand-year-old containment field. A transmission with no signature. Captain Marcus Cole takes the Resolute II to the deep frontier on her first deployment. Three years after losing the original R...
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Book 5
First Contact
A distress call breaks the route home. Captain Marcus Cole has been in the chair for nearly thirty years. The ISV Resolute II is carrying him home from his last deployment, with the officer who will replace him already a...
