The Dark Ascent

Walter Hunt's debut novel The Dark Wing was favorably compared to Ender's Game, Babylon 5, Honor Harrington, and C. S. Forester. The publication of the second volume The Dark Path was heralded by Analog as "a quest that may well prove science fiction's version of The Lord of the Rings."

The Dark Ascent

The war with the zor is long over, and Admiral Marais, the legendary "Dark Wing" is long dead, though some of his companions on that campaign of xenocide still remain, and in the alien philosophies of the past their might exist man's hope for salvation in the very near future.

The Dark Path introduced a new alien force into the delicate balance of power... one that was the actual puppetmaster of the human-zor war and now wishes to bring both worlds under its madness inducing shadow.

But the same ancient philosophy of the zor race that prophesized "the Dark Wing" has also foreseen a hero that will meet the new menace – a hero now mystically embodied in a rebellious space commodore by the name of Jackie Lappierre.

As armadas clash and outposts fall, the overly confident alien menace is forced to confront a zor human alliance that has been warned, their covert and insidious plans of infiltration now exposed... though victory is hardly ascertained for either side in The Dark Ascent.