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The Crypt series by Scott Sigler is Das Boot meets Battlestar Galactica meets Lost! The Planetary Union is at war with several factions, creating frequent interstellar battles across multiple fronts. The P.U.V. James Keeling is a classified Union warship. The vessels origin is unknown. It is so secret, in fact, that most fleet personnel know of it only as a rumor. Hushed whispers talk about the vessel with an eighty-percent mortality rate for its crew ... hence the ships nickname, The Crypt. The ship has a unique ability it can slip into another dimension, travel undetected, then re-emerge into our plane. This makes the ship a submarine in space, a one-of-kind vessel that can alter the course of entire wars. A unique ability, yes, but not without danger. The ship is constantly used in battles and regularly takes heavy damage. The resulting high mortality rate requires a constant influx of new crew members. If you have connections, favors to call in, if youre a decorated hero or your star is on the rise, you pull every string you have to avoid being appointed to the Keeling. The brightest and best shield themselves from this top-secret vessel, yet the fleet must send the Keeling out on critical missions. As the war drags on and casualties pile up, the Admiralty starts to crew the ship by assigning the worst of the worst rapists, murderers, thieves, cowards, rebels, discipline cases, etc. Most of these pour souls are given a choice: serve a two year stint on the Keeling and have your record expunged, or be executed for your crimes. The Crypt becomes a combination warship and prison barge. This setup creates a unique series backdrop: a crew full of neer-do-wells crammed into a tiny, submarine-like ship and constantly sent out on dangerous combat missions. Enemy spies are onboard. Common arguments erupt into lethal confrontations. Serial killers in naval uniform stalk the corridors in their off-shift time. The crew isnt told what the ship really is or where it came from. Crewmen suffer hallucinations, nightmares, bursts of rage, and a ship-wide paranoia slowly grows until it becomes almost impossible to separate the real threats from the imagined ones. If youve been convicted of a serious crime, if youve crossed the wrong admiral, if youve been deemed a waste of a uniform, your career and your life ends on the Keeling. Dark, desolate and violent, The Crypt series creates a setting where every character is expendable and the viewer never knows who will live and who will die. The Keeling has several abilities not found in any other ship. The ship itself is very much the series most-mysterious character. It is the only known ship capable of short trans-dimensional jumps, sliding into another plane of reality where it is undetectable by ships on our plane. It can slide back into standard reality to strike at enemy vessels, like a WWII submarine surfacing for a torpedo shot. The Keeling is actually an alien vessel made of an unknown, biological material. The ship slowly bonds with its crew, mapping their thoughts and mental processes. It feeds on the crews mental energy, particularly energy created by pain, terror and hatred. As the series progresses, the characters face growing nightmares and hallucinations.

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The only way out is to die

Few know the warships actual name. Fewer still know what it really is. And almost no one knows of its unique ability, an ability that could tilt the balance of power if not outright win the war.

But everyone has heard the rumors. Rumors about the worst place the Planetary Union Fleet can send you. Rumors of a ship with an eighty percent crew mortality rate. In these hushed, fearful whispers, the ship does have a name.

People call it the Crypt, because those aboard are as good as dead.

The PUV James Keeling can do something no other vessel in existence can doslip into another dimension, travel undetected, then re-emerge onto our plane and surprise enemy targets. But the thing that makes the Crypt unique also makes it a nightmare for those onboard; interdimensional travel causes hallucinations, violent behavior, and psychotic breakdowns.

Keeling could be the Unions greatest weapon, a game-changing asset that can defeat the bloodthirsty zealots of the Purist Nation, the Unions mortal enemy. If, that is, the brass can find the right crew.

But with those dark rumors traveling at lightspeed throughout Fleet, sailors with connections, with favors to call in, or those with careers on the rise pull any string they can to avoid being assigned to the Crypt. The brightest and best shield themselves from this top-secret craft, yet the brass must send it out on critical missions.

As the war drags on and casualties pile up, Fleet crews the ship by assigning the worst of the worst. If you are convicted of assault, fraud, cowardice, theft, rape, murderor you cross the wrong Admiralyou may find yourself aboard the Crypt. Most are given a choice: serve a two-year stint on the Keelingand have your record expunged, or be executed for your crimes.

Welcome to the PUV James Keeling, where the only way out is to die.

#1 New York Times bestseller Scott Sigler returns with this highly anticipated military sci-fi series, The Crypt. Its Battlestar Galactica meets Event Horizon in this tale of service and solitude.

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