Eric Thomson Books in Order

Former Marine Pathfinder Zack Decker takes a starship security job after his troubled retirement takes another violent turn. The ship’s dubious business draws him into a pursuit involving dangerous evidence and a secretive Commonwealth government agency.

Zack Decker hopes to settle into cargo hauling and a quieter life, but old enemies have other plans. Captured by pirates and sold beyond the Coalsack Nebula, he must survive long enough to fight back.

Battle-weary Siobhan Dunmoore receives command of the disgraced frigate Stingray during humanity’s war with the Shrehari. Facing a hostile crew and suspicious superiors, she must uncover the troubles aboard her ship while proving she can lead it.

Sent into pirate-infested space after failing to protect a freighter, Siobhan Dunmoore searches for the truth that could clear her crew. Fleet intrigue and enemy agents complicate a dangerous assignment from which she may not return.

Someone is stirring up colonial war along the Commonwealth’s frontier, threatening bloodshed and the rise of an empire. Former Marine Zack Decker faces unfinished business from his past as he defies orders to confront the danger.

When his old comrade Hal Tarra disappears on the frontier, Zack Decker refuses to accept official inaction. Haunted by an earlier failed rescue, he undertakes an unauthorized search that tests his loyalty and offers a chance at redemption.

A centuries-old log buoy sends Siobhan Dunmoore and the aging frigate Stingray toward an uncharted nebula. Accompanied by a mysterious envoy, they race an old Shrehari enemy to uncover a discovery with potentially far-reaching consequences.

Failed covert missions and vanishing officers point to treachery within Commonwealth intelligence. After repeated betrayals, Zack Decker and Hera Talyn go underground to expose a conspiracy that threatens to replace democratic government with an empire.

Commanding the disguised warship Iolanthe, Siobhan Dunmoore uncovers troubling activity while supplying a naval outpost. A neglected investigation resurfaces, forcing her to weigh orders against duty as she pursues mercenaries and evidence of treason.

As civil war tears humanity’s empire apart, Captain Jonas Morane leads the remnants of a shattered battle group toward a hidden sanctuary. Preserving ships and knowledge means crossing a dangerous wormhole network while evading rival fleets and marauders.

Zack Decker and Hera Talyn are rebuilding special operations when a new plot threatens the Commonwealth’s frontier. With political enemies undermining democracy and his estranged daughter in danger, Decker cannot keep the mission separate from his family.

Constabulary investigator Caelin Morrow travels to Aquilonia Station after a senior naval officer is accused of murdering a Shrehari envoy. With an uneasy peace at risk, she must penetrate corruption and political interference to establish the truth.

While raiding enemy-held space, Siobhan Dunmoore answers a distress signal that places civilians in danger. Intelligence operations and organized crime complicate the rescue, and she refuses to accept the people involved as expendable casualties.

Terrorists and political conspirators threaten to turn the Commonwealth’s frontier into a battleground for centralized control. Zack Decker and Hera Talyn struggle against hidden enemies inside their own organization as they race to prevent civil war.

With humanity’s empire collapsing, Jonas Morane seeks to preserve its knowledge while Devy Custis tries to establish a successor realm. Their competing visions face the same dangers: a destructive empress, invading raiders and ambitious commanders who could ruin both plans.

Ghost Squadron commander Zack Decker investigates the disappearance of an undercover Constabulary officer who exposed a human trafficking cartel. Working with Hera Talyn, he must rescue the officer and confront a slave trade protected by frontier politics.

Siobhan Dunmoore and Iolanthe join a task force assigned to attack enemy commerce, but her methods clash with its admiral’s expectations. An unauthorized strike against a Shrehari base threatens to change both her career and the war.

Caelin Morrow returns to a remote colony after complaints about a police chief she previously approved. A senior official’s death draws her team into a case involving organized crime, official corruption and dangerous corporate interests.

As corporate interests and centralizing politicians undermine colonial autonomy, Ghost Squadron battles riots, criminal cartels and hostile intelligence networks. Zack Decker confronts the moral cost of his methods while trying to prevent a devastating civil war.

The isolated Republic of Lyonesse has survived the empire’s fall, but plague ships now threaten its refuge. Jonas Morane and Sister Gwenneth must defend the republic with a battered fleet while confronting forces that could turn its citizens against one another.

The Shrehari War is over, but peace brings new dangers as the Fleet loses hard-won lessons to bureaucracy. Siobhan Dunmoore takes on a different role while internal conflict and competing interests threaten humanity’s fragile unity.

A forgotten bunker on a dead mining world contains weapons left from the Migration Wars. Curtis Delgado and his Ghost Squadron troops must guard the discovery while rival factions and enemy agents move to seize its lethal contents.

Generations after the empire’s collapse, Lyonesse prepares to reunite humanity without knowing another surviving realm shares its ambition. When the authoritarian Wyvern Hegemony begins exploring, the two heirs approach a meeting that could bring cooperation or renewed interstellar war.

Centuries after humanity’s empire collapsed, the Wyvern Hegemony and Republic of Lyonesse compete to reunite its scattered worlds. As their expansion gathers pace, the legacy of the old empire threatens both powers and their ambitions.

Assigned to a staff position at Third Fleet headquarters, Siobhan Dunmoore finds a once-effective force weakened by corruption and complacency. Restoring order on the frontier means confronting treachery among the leaders responsible for protecting it.

Caelin Morrow’s new military crimes unit investigates allegations of atrocities against an elite Pathfinder squadron. As her team pursues evidence from a rebellious colony, political interference threatens to turn an already difficult inquiry into something far more dangerous.

Assigned to investigate possible treason within the Fleet, Caelin Morrow takes her pursuit of corrupt officers into military headquarters. Powerful opponents threaten her life as she tries to uncover the truth behind a perilous conspiracy.

With the Commonwealth approaching collapse, Zack Decker’s Ghost Squadron guards a last attempt at peace on his homeworld. Political conspiracies threaten the talks, while returning home forces Decker to confront the family estranged by his military career.

Two rival successors to humanity’s fallen empire reclaim devastated worlds and restore interstellar civilization. Their competition grows increasingly suspicious as old loyalties, competing ambitions and the question of who should reunite humanity threaten a fragile balance.

Twenty years after the war, political leaders push to concentrate power on Earth while the Fleet pursues its own long-term plans. Siobhan Dunmoore becomes a central player and a target in the struggle over humanity’s future.

Two years after the frontier worlds seceded, the Commonwealth continues to destabilize its new rival. Ghost Squadron officer Curtis Delgado undertakes a covert mission among former colonies where criminal cartels, mercenaries and displaced populations fuel further conflict.

Evidence of a genocidal Republican project reaches the Second Empire as the struggle to reunite humanity intensifies. Former Lyonesse veterans Farrin Norum and Currag DeCarde undertake a dangerous mission to prevent catastrophe among their former countrymen.

Mercenary commander Matt Hawke loses his ship and crew to suspected sabotage in a galaxy of competing states and criminal powers. Joining forces with starship owner Leila Dante, he searches for the culprit while questioning whom he can trust.

A young Siobhan Dunmoore leaves New Tasman to pursue a naval career at the Commonwealth Armed Forces Academy. Four demanding years among ambitious classmates force her to reconsider her goals and the kind of officer she hopes to become.