Joe Durham

Montgomery Hale is seventeen, broke, and about to commit the biggest fraud of his life. He's spent years fixing machines on a backwater space station, saving every credit for a fleet academy education he'll never afford. When a last-minute vacancy opens on the Union's flagship, he does the only...

A city is dying from forged paperwork. The fleet just sent the one officer whose whole career is forged paperwork.Drenna's cities live under energy shields, because when its two suns line up, the open ground burns. Vaenlyn's shield is certified current every component, every service date...

Montgomery Hale has been promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade and now has greater responsibilities on the USF Providence. He has junior officers reporting to him for the first time, and a mission list that does not care about the new bar on his collar. The fleet doesn't slow down for a promotion...

A colony has voted to leave the Union, and worse, to ignore physics.A drifting gravitational anomaly is on a six-week track to cross Halen Colony's star system. The math says it will shift Halen's orbit by enough to render the planet uninhabitable inside a season. Halen's biosphere will not...

The first book was about a kid faking his way onto a starship. This one is about what happens after he's good at the job. Which, it turns out, is worse. *Montgomery Hale is an ensign now. For real, almost. He's on the primary helm rotation. The captain trusts him. He flew the corridor mission...

Montgomery Hale ist siebzehn, pleite und im Begriff, den größten Betrug seines Lebens zu begehen. Jahrelang hat er auf einer abgelegenen Raumstation Maschinen repariert und jeden Credit gespart–für eine Ausbildung an der Flottenakademie, die er sich nie wird leisten können.