A review by cybergoths
Fleet of Knives by Gareth L. Powell

4.0

The second of the stories about the Trouble Dog and her crew, this continues the theme of redemption. The Trouble Dog is on a sabbatical (having been refitted following the climax of the first novel) when it is directed to attempt the rescue of a merchant ship which has suffered some kind of catastrophe while trying to rob an abandoned alien generation ship of artefacts in deep space. This is risky, as the alien race that created the ship see it as a sacred artefact and it is near their space. Meanwhile, the Marble Armada, the abandoned massive fleet of high technology knife ships continues to negotiate with humanity, but then decides to act to prevent a catastrophe.

The story never moves away from the events which made the Trouble Dog join the House of Reclamation. The atrocious war-crime continues to haunt the story with many of its protagonists still in play.