Hunter's star (Colonial War: Book Four

Three times now, Captain Hunter has faced off against the forces of the Federation on the far frontier, and three times he has successfully defeated them, either in combat or through guile, but the discovery of a new and hostile power on the border has raised the stakes higher than ever, and at last, the Republic has mustered a fighting force to take the enemy on, head-to-head, under the command of a legendary warrior, Admiral ‘Wild Bill’ Hawke, hero of the Six Systems. Jack Hunter, his reputation restored, is offered a command of his own in the fleet, a squadron of auxiliary cruisers that comes with a Commodore’s star, a mission that will take him into deep space to hunt down the enemy, to harry their flanks.

An assignment designed to keep him out of the war, and to ensure that his share of glory goes to officers of whom his superiors approve, rather than the rogues and renegades under Hunter’s command, sending him off into the dark.
And headlong into the biggest fight of his life…