Captain Hollis Ives has sworn to take down the infamous pirate captain Mad Dog, or die trying. But when their ships runs across an unexpected enemy in deep space-a war fleet out to destroy the Level itself-she'll have to either form an alliance with the pirates, or watch her ship, her crew, and possibly the Level itself, burn. Silas Hunt thought he'd left the navy behind forever when he joined up with Mad Dog. But now, forced to either work with the naval captain he'd been ready to kill, or see his crew members killed and his captain tortured, Silas will have to use every scrap of skill and ingenuity he learned from both the navy and the pirate crew to keep himself and Mad Dog alive long enough to escape. meets with a science-fiction twist in R.M. Olson's thrilling new space opera series, The Devil and the Dark.