An alternate history series · 10 books · complete

Europe is a battlefield. The Fleet is open for business.

1942. A super-plague called the Blight sweeps across North America in weeks. Stranded across the Atlantic, three million American soldiers and sailors make a choice: they reform as the Fleet, a sovereign, heavily armed mercenary state.

Start with The Exile The campaign

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Cover of The Exile, book 1 of The Mercenary Fleet — Book 1 · The Exile

They fight not for freedom, but for

FoodFor three million men, and the refugees in their ships.

FuelEvery tank, every convoy, every flame tower runs on it.

A fortressA place behind the Rhine to call their own.

Campaign log · November 1942 to August 1944

Ten operations. One army with no country.

No home. No chain of command. No supply lines. Selling their might to the highest bidder in a war-torn Europe, the Fleet fights its way from the freezing Atlantic to the bottom of the world.

1

Nov 1942North Atlantic · Siegfried Line

The Exile

The United States is a graveyard. Europe is a battlefield.

Washington is gone and New York is burning. With fuel running out and refugee ships trapped in the freezing Atlantic, three million stranded soldiers stop taking orders from foreign kings and charge the Siegfried Line to take a home for themselves.
Threat: The Blight
2

Feb 1943The Rhineland

The Iron Coast

The ocean is no longer a wall. It is a highway.

The Blight has learned to march along the ocean floor, and the Atlantic Wall crumbles in a single night. The Fleet pulls a gold heist on the Bank of France and turns the Rhine into a moat of fire.
Threat: The Deep Ones
3

Jun 1943Bavaria · Brenner Pass

The Black Convoy

The tank is empty. The road is full. The only way out is through.

Task Force Anvil: five hundred empty tanker trucks and the Black Shermans of the 2nd Armored Division, sent through the Dead Lands to trade American grain for African oil.
Threat: Sleepers and Ice Walkers
4

Jul 1943Aachen · The Elbe

The Crimson Strain

The Cold War has begun. And it's contagious.

A battered British submarine brings a weapon that dissolves the dead and poisons the land. When a spy carries the secret east, Captain Tex Miller ends up on the Elbe holding a glass jar that could end the world.
Threat: Project Black Tulip
5

Aug 1943North Africa · Suez

The Burning Sky

The dead don't just swim anymore. They fly.

Winged, sun-powered nightmares dive on the decks of ships. Beneath the Sphinx lies proof that this has happened before, and a radio signal from the Rocky Mountains says the United States government is still alive.
Threat: The Ascended
6

Sep 1943The Azores

The Lazarus Front

The signal came from the West. It wasn't a rescue. It was an order.

The Directorate commands the Fleet to come home, and the promise splits the army in two. A task force sails to tap the trans-Atlantic cable, and the war turns inward on the decks of sinking ships.
Threat: Leviathans
7

Dec 1943Cologne · Rhine Delta

The Darkwater Siege

The enemy is no longer at the gates. They are in the pipes.

A biological dam floods the American Zone and drowns the flame towers. Miller leads a squad of Tunnel Rats into the flooded underbelly of Cologne on an ironclad barge built from scrap.
Threat: The Hatchlings
8

Mar 1944The Ruhr Valley

The American War

The Liberators have arrived. And they are bringing the fire.

A reclamation fleet crosses the Atlantic with Pershing tanks, jet fighters and the Bomb. To protect the refugees in his care, Eisenhower must order American soldiers to fire on the American flag.
Threat: The Directorate
9

Jun 1944North Sea · Soviet Union

The Cobalt Tide

The war for the world is over. The war for the future has begun.

Radiation-fed Leviathans tear warships apart in the North Sea, and the East has gone silent. Miller unites his worst enemies for a HALO jump into the heart of a fungal Hive Mind.
Threat: The Cobalt Ones
10

Aug 1944Antarctica

The Last Redoubt

The world is dead. The only way out is down.

The Fleet's final mission: a one-way voyage to the bottom of the world, guided by a map stolen from a Soviet salt mine, in search of a sanctuary beneath the ice. A Directorate submarine follows every move.
Threat: The Omega