Jacey Bedford's Journal

Narrated by Mark Boyett. In the 25^th century humans have colonised hundreds of planets. War is a thing of the past, so the Black Fleet is being wound up and the obsolete battleships decommissioned. Captain Jackson Wolfe, captain of the last warship, will soon be out of a job. Wolfe, cursed with a commanding officer who hates him, a crew renowned for its disciplinary problems, and a tendency to take solace in alcohol is not in the best position to repel a powerful alien vessel, but he’s the only one on the spot when two colonies are destroyed by something that looks like an asteroid, but is definitely an alien ship, one that outclasses Wolfe and his crew in every way. Despite the tendency to go into great detail about the ship’s nuts and bolts and how they all wor (which seems to be a feature of military SF) this fairly zips along. The narration is well done and it kept me listening.